The Deputy National Coordinator for the Free SHS Secretariat, Dr Belinda Glover, has lamented bitterly over how parents seeking Senior High School (SHS) placement for their wards are overcrowding the placement resolution centres.

According to her, about 95% of the parents who visit the centres do so not because their wards have not been placed by the computerised system or failed to secure a school.

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Rather, they are requesting for a change of school or transfer for their ward from one category of school to another.

“Our major issue is those who are coming here with the grades that cannot take them to the schools that they want to go. Remember, it's a system, an algorithm, so, the algorithm will interface and then be able to place you where your grade can take you to. But if that is done, and then you come back insisting that we should take you to a different school, then you are giving us problems and that is what we are facing here,” she lamented.

“Largely change of school [is the problem]. It’s not about not being placed, it's not about not getting a school, but a change of school. So, it means that the person has already been to the school, but they just don't like it. We all cannot go to the Achimota and the Wesley Girls, so when that happens, you end up seeing students sleeping on the floor and the backlash will come to government,” Dr Glover decried.

Dr Glover described the trend as worrying, stating that it is creating unnecessary pressure.

She urged parents to accept their wards’ placements so the centres can focus on addressing genuine and peculiar concerns.

“They [parents] should just take the schools that have been assigned to them [their wards] to make our work very easy. Every school is a school. Please go to those schools that you have been assigned to so that we can ease the pressure here. 95 % of the cases [are about] change of schools. The grades that are being brought here for the change of school, cannot even go to the schools that they want us to change. Imagine somebody with aggregate 36 wanting to go to Achimota. How do we explain this?” she quizzed.

2025 SHS Placement Released: Here's how to check your school

Thousands of anxious parents and students thronged the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Hall in Accra on September 23, 2025, to express their frustration following the release of the 2025 Senior High School (SHS) placement results.

Some students were either not placed at all or assigned to schools and programmes they did not choose.



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