490,000 BECE graduates qualify for SHS; placement portal opens September 8

Four hundred and ninety thousand (490,000) BECE graduates have qualified to be placed in Senior High School (SHS), Technical and Vocational Schools across the country.

The Computerised School Selection and Placement System, CSSPS portal will be opened on Sunday September, 8 to allow parents and students to find out schools in which they have been placed.

Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, GES, Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwa, who announced this in Accra said 195 million cedis has been set aside for the payment of the Free SHS fees for the first semester.

Also, the GES has asked the Buffer Stock Company to supply food to the schools on timely basis.

In this regard, the Ministry of Education has increased the money for perishable goods sent to the schools from 20% to 30%.