The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service, Rev. Jonathan Bettey, has said there is an intention to improve on the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) to remove the bottlenecks that have gripped it since its implementation started.
He said stakeholders were to meet next week to take stock of the CSSPS, 11 years after its introduction, to streamline issues surrounding placement of students into the various senior high schools countrywide.
“Stakeholders made a lot of complaints and we have received a lot of complaints from people. …Last year, 2015, the selection process was not so much good for their liking and there is the need for us to reduce it this year. In 2016, the past experience will not be recurring,” Rev Bettey assured Accra News Friday February 12, 2016, ahead of a meeting to address challenges with the system.
“So what we have done is to call the stakeholders…to sit and see how we can make headway and bring some sanity into the system.”
He hoped that the meeting would resolve the “pain” of candidates getting admission in schools and yet not being admitted, and “to make sure that nobody would be able to influence the system”.
Last year’s placement process was not spared the perennial confusion. Wesley Girls’ Senior High School, in particular, bore the harshest brunt of the confusion as so many prospective students got stranded despite being placed in that school. It took the intervention of the Vice President to have the issue resolved.
