Don’t pay any money at the Solution centres – Education Ministry urges parents

The Education Ministry has cautioned all parents/guardians not to pay any money to anyone at the solution centres at the ongoing Computerized School Placement System (CSSPS) across the country.

This, according to the Ministry would ensure that no parent or guardian was burdened with financial issues while going through the solution process for their children to be placed at the school of their choice.

Madam Afra Sika Mensah, Deputy National Coordinator of the Free Senior High School (FSHS) programme, who announced this to the media in Accra on Tuesday also urged parents to desist from engaging the services of people hovering around the centres (Golo boys).

She explained that rather they should engage only designated officials who have been tagged at the centres to help them resolve their issues relating to the placement of their children.

High turnout

The Deputy National Director described the high turnout at the centres during the first two days of the exercise as very good since it was an indication of parents showing interest in the CSSPS exercise.

Madam Afra also reminded parents/guardians to desist from leaving their children alone to go to the solution centres since that would not help the course of the exercise but rather development keen interest in the exercise so they could ask all the critical questions when they engage the officials at the centres.
She mentioned change of school, no placement at all, re-entry and change of residential status as among the issues brought the various centres across the country.

Background

The Education Ministry recently announced the commencement of the CSSPS to give the opportunity candidates who could not be placed in their choice of school to do self-placement.

Again, the ongoing exercise would create an opportunity for parents to make changes such as wrong placement to schools for example boys placed in girls’ schools and vice versa.

A total of 447,698 candidates have been automatically placed in Senior High Schools (SHS’s) as well as Technical Institutions (TI’s) across the country.
The figure represents 80.93 per cent of all qualified candidates who sat the examination this year while the remaining candidates are to do self-placement so they can go to school.