Junior High School graduates are being given the opportunity to choose eleven Senior High Schools in order to allow them choose all their preferred secondary schools.
This hinges on the Free Senior High School (SHS) secretariat’s new policy which is allowing JHS graduates to choose the usual six senior high schools previous students chose and add another five different schools they would want to attend.
The overarching objective is to reduce the number of students who go in for self-placement.
Explaining this new policy, the Central Regional Coordinator for Free SHS, Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang said JHS graduates are to select six schools as they did last year, but this time, they are to select another five sets of schools to make the total eleven which must be different from the first six set of schools.
“In other words, you can’t repeat the six schools that you selected in the second sheet and we are doing this to reduce the number of students who go in out for self-placements” he continued.
Prior to the selection of schools, both parents and their wards are to go to various school premises to be lectured and directed on how the eleven schools should be chosen.
“All parents and students are being called by their headmasters to go to the schools for them to put them through the exercise for the school selection which starts from 18th to 22nd September, 2023”. He emphasized this in an interview with ATL FM NEWS.
Meanwhile, the Central Regional Coordinator for Free SHS also revealed that an opportunity has been created for 2020 to 2022 JHS graduates who could not attend or complete their SHS education to apply for placement in 2023.
Mr. Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang in this regard directed such persons to “bring their details, their result slips, for me to get a new index number for them to also go to school.”
In addition, he said “Those who wrote the private BECE also have a chance to select the school as well as foreign students. There are some people, who are Ghanaians, and they travelled so they were not here to go through the process to get a school.
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Source: Priscilla Loo & Linda Afful/ATLFMNEWS
