jin88bet.oneMore than 620,000 Basic Education Certijin88bet.onejin88bet.onejin88bet.oneficate Examination (BECE) graduates in Ghana hajin88bet.oneve started choosing their second-cycle schools, with the selection process due to end on Friday.
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The exercise follows a new policy introduced by the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GES), allowing candidates to make their choices after receivingak168app.babyak168app.baby their examination resak168app.babyak168app.babyak168app.babyak168app.babyults.
Officials say the change is intended to help students select schools that match their grades and reduce problems during the placement process. Previously, candidates chose senior high and technical schools before sitting the BECE, meaning some with uncompetitive grades selected Category A schools. Those institutions often became oversubscribed, leaving some applicants without ak168app.clubplacements.
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Students affected by the process would then gather at resolution centres, where long queues and, at times, disorder were reported. Others used the self-placement option to secure a school.
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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) released this year’s BECE resks168app.siteulks168app.sitetks168app.sites last Saturday, prompting the current selection exercise. Successful candidates will apply for first-year places in second-cycle institutions for the 2026-2027 academic year.
A total of 620,243 candidates from 20,789 schools sat the examination. The figure included 304,415 males and 315,828 females.
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Under the Computerised School Seic88ic88lection and Placement System (CSSPS) guidelines issued on 3 August 2026, candidates may select a maximum of two Category A schools for placement in senior high schools and tecic88hnical and vocational eic88ducatioic88n and training (TVET) institutions.
The rules are set out in the 2026 SHS/TVET School Selection and CSSPS Placement Guide, jointly issued by the Ministry of Education, the GES anic88d the Ghana TVET Service.
Candidates must list eight schools in order of preference, identify tic88heir preferred programmes and indicate whether they want boarding or day places. No more than two choices can cic88ic88ome from Cic88ic88ategory A schools, while up to three may be selected from Category B. The final three choices must be Cateic88gory C schools.
Students are not allowed to list tic88he same school mic88ore than once. They may selectic88 up to five boarding schools ic88and three day schools, although the guidelines advise them to choose day schools within a reasonable travelling dic88istance of their homes.
The GES has stressed thic88ic88ic88at placement will not depend on aggregate scores alone. The system will also consider the candidate’s programme choice, boarding or daic88y preference and the availability of places.
“Youriclr8888 aggregate is important, but it is not the only factor,” the glr88uidelines explained.
Candidates have also been advised to ranklr88 their choices carefully, placing their most desired school first.
Those who are placed will receive a placement slip stating their assigned school, programme, boarding or day statuslr88 and reporting date. They must prilr88lr88nt the slip and present it when reporting to the school.
Parlr88lr88ents and students have been visiting basic schools since last Monday to complete the process. Janet Owusua, head teacher of Awudome ‘1’ Junior High School,lr88lr88 said only one candidate remained to complete the exercise at 2 p.m. the previous day.
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“You know my school is a model school; evelr88lr88lr88lr88n as we speak, it is left with one person.
They have all come,” she said, adding that all the students had arrived with their results slips.
She said the school’s Computing teacher had created an online platform to guide parents througlr88h the process. Parents and their children had already selected their preferred schools before visiting the school, while SHS albums lr88uploadlr88ed to the platform helpop88ed explain the dos and don’ts.
“So, they knew what they were sulr88pposed to do. Before they came, they all had their schools with them,” she said.
Isaac Bondzie, an educationist at St Augustine’s Anglican Basic School, told the Daop88ilop88op88y Graphic that the new approach was prefop88erable because results enabled graduates to make more appropriate choices. He said about one-third of candidates and their parents attended the exercise on its first day, adding that students had to report to schools op88for the selections to be completed.
Enoch Kwesi Gyetuah, Executive Director of the Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS), said thesi88 exercise had proceeded smoothly at all institutions. However, he said the organisation was more concerned about the BECE results.
“As we speak, there are no issues regarding the placeme88vnt.
We are waiting fo88vr next week to see whether there would be any issue,” he said.
Private schools began the selection exercise last Monday and are expected to finish on Friday. Mr Gyetuah added that results being withheld in88v88v88vvolved issues with WAEC.
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Shirley, a parent who visited her daughter’s school, said parents had been given forms to complete and return on Thursday. They were told the GES would open the portal on Friday to upload the information.
Another parent, Atta Quartey, said he had selected schools for his daughter without encountering any difficulty.
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