GES Places 93.4% of Students in SHS, TVET

The Ghana Education Service has indicated that a total of 518,717 students out of the 555,353 who qualified for placement have been placed into various Senior High and Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutes across the country.

This represents 93.4 per cent of those qualified for placement. Out of the number who qualified, 320,773 have enrolled on various SHS and TVET schools placed representing 61.84 per cent of the schools they were placed in.

The Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, who announced this in Accra lauded the various stakeholders involved in the placement and urged them to ensure that all qualified candidates are enrolled in one school or the other.

Dr Adutwum lamented why parents and students refused to follow laid down processes that had been communicated to all stakeholders before the commencement of the placement exercise.

He said parents whose children were not placed in any school were asked to do self-placement which they fail to do and rather stormed the resolution centres which led to congestion.

“I am surprised some parents waited till schools reopened before they started rushing to do either self-placement or rushing to the resolution centres across the country which were virtually empty during the first week of the placement exercise,” Dr Adutwum said.

He stated that reports received from all regions across the country indicated that the first week of their operations at the resolution centres saw only a few people coming to them for assistance.

The Coordinator of the Free SHS Secretariat, William Darkwah said the secretariat is now poised to embark on an enrolment drive to ensure that all placed students are enrolled.

He called on stakeholders in communities to complement the government’s effort by assisting brilliant but needy students in their communities who have been placed in any school with some of the items needed so they can enroll.