Placement for candidates who sat the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has been released with a total of 494,530 candidates qualified to be placed out of the 533,693 registered candidates.
Some 343,264 candidates have automatically been placed in one of the schools of their choice.
However, 151,266 qualified candidates could not match any of their choices, thus, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed such students to “do self-placement to select from available schools”.
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Meanwhile, speaking on the Atlantic Wave yesterday, the Central Region Free SHS Coordinator Okatekyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang explained that the self-placement process that has been rolled out will allow candidates who do not get any of their choices an opportunity to select among the available schools with vacancies.
“If we don’t get an automatic placement and you are asked to do the self-place, you can select the schools but there is flexibility here. This means that if you don’t like the school you selected, you can go ahead and change it as many times as you can” he added.
He also clarified that the 30 percent of placement slots available in the country’s top senior high schools were reserved solely for students from the public schools and deprived communities across the country.
He stressed that, “the 30 percent placement is for all those who attended public schools in the country. So for instance out of the 700 students that Wesley Girls SHS admitted, 30 percent which is 200 are reserved for all the public school students who selected Wesley girls first”
All fresh senior high school students are expected to report on March 10, following the scrap of the double-track schooling system by the government this year.
SOURCE: ATLFMNEWS
