Parents and guardians, including heads of Senior High Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis, have commended the Ghana Education Service for ensuring a stress-free admission of new entrants into the Senior High Schools (SHS).
This year, unlike the previous years where parents and guardians complain of challenges such as long hours of queuing, omission of student’s names on the admission lists among others, the admission has been described as very smooth and stress-free by some heads of SHS in the Cape Coast Metropolis as well as parents.
SHS freshmen per the GES calendar on Monday, April 4, began reporting to their various choices of schools selected through the placement systems although some are yet to be posted.
Those yet to be posted are currently going through a self-placement process by the GES to get them posted.
At the Mfantsipim School and Adisadel College in Cape Coast, ATLFMNEWS witnessed the fast pace of various processes students had to pass through to be officially registered as a student.
ATL FM NEWS observed that students have to only present the completed forms printed out from www.myshsadmission.com to the school authorities to endorse them and be assigned to their dormitories.
At St. Augustine’s College, fresh students were made to register based on the courses with each course registration center mounted at different positions to avoid long queues.
Some headmasters of SHS schools in interaction with ATLFMNEWS expressed gratitude for the fast pace of the process as compared to that the previous years.
Meanwhile, this year, the double-track system will not be introduced as adequate preparations have been put in place to welcome the first-year students in the various schools across the country.
According to the Education Ministry’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Kwasi Kwarteng, the constrained infrastructural situation that caused the double-track has improved.
He notes that 1,400 of 3,700 abandoned projects have been completed resulting in a significant improvement in the accommodation problems which tailed the double-track system.
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Source: Eric Sekyi & Emmanuella Ama Gyamfi/ATLFMNEWS
