Prospective SHS students who choose to be day students stand the chance of getting their first-choice schools as compared to students who select to be boarders.
This is according to the Free Senior High School (SHS) Coordinator in the Central Region, Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang who says, this is largely due to the inadequate accommodation facilities in some of the second-cycle schools students select.
Speaking on ATL FM’s ATLANTIC WAVE on Wednesday, he, therefore, urged parents and prospective SHS students to opt to be day students for their choice of placement to help mitigate difficulty in accommodation in schools.
“Although you may have a very good grade because the boarding is very competitive, you might not get the school or you may get the same grade as somebody, but the person may have selected to be a day student to reading general science. And if they are admitting 200 science students, the day students would have a choice because maybe the boarding will be full to accommodate all of the students. So, the computer looks at all these things before we place them” he said.
Mr. Opoku further indicated that students who completed the year 2020-2021 but were unable to go to school because of unsaid reasons can bring their results to his office at the Cape Coast regional coordinating council, for placement.
“There is a chance for them. But if you completed in 2018, 2019, etc, there’s no chance for those students. If such students want to go to school, they would have to still rewrite the BECE as private before being given the chance to enter second-cycle education. But we have given chance to those who competed in 2020 and 2021” he explained.
He further said persons with disabilities are allowed to enroll in second-circle education irrespective of the year they wrote the BECE.
“There are certain schools that have the facilities for those special students with special needs. For example, with the visually impaired students, if you come to the Central Region, we have Ghana National College for them. For such people, we don’t use the year they completed as a requirement. So, whether he/she completed three or fifty years ago, we give them the chance provided they want it.”
Mr. Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang advised parents to be extra careful not to fall prey to deceitful individuals and syndicates who charge money to help them secure placement into Senior High Schools of their choice.
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Source: Enock Chanimbe/ATLFMNEWS
