The Ledzokuku Municipal Director of Education, Theresa Tetteh, has appealed to parents to take a keen interest in the upcoming school selection process to ensure that they select the right schools for their children and wards and avoid mistakes.

The exercise is scheduled to take place from next week Monday to Friday.

She explained that parents’ active involvement in the process would help prevent wrong school selections and other mistakes that could ultimately result in their children not securing their preferred schools, with its attendant challenges.

Tetteh made the appeal when she delivered her welcome address at a one-day sensitisation workshop on the 2026 school selection and placement process for headteachers and in-school guidance and counselling coordinators from public and private basic schools in the Ledzokuku Municipality on Thursday.

Participants were taken through the school selection guidelines, including the categories of schools to select, dos and don’ts regarding the selection and placement system, and a list of pilot private senior high schools they could choose from, among other topics.

The Municipal Director also cautioned parents against leaving the selection of schools entirely to teachers.

She encouraged parents to either undertake the process together with teachers or do it themselves to avoid situations where they later accuse teachers of selecting the wrong schools for their children or wards.

The Ledzokuku Municipal Examination Officer, David Gbedzi, urged participants to carefully follow the selection criteria and take note of the various updates introduced for this year’s exercise.

He also stressed the need for participants to pay close attention to the various codes to be used during the selection process to avoid choosing the wrong schools.

The Ledzokuku Municipal Guidance and Counselling Coordinator, Charity Willie-Doe, encouraged participants to take note of the courses their children intend to pursue and assist parents who may seek their guidance and support.

She advised parents to consider allowing their children and wards to select TVET and STEM programmes as their first-choice options, stressing that they were equally important as traditional grammar programmes.

Willie-Doe urged parents and students to consider their strengths, interests, passions and temperament when selecting courses to avoid regrets after completing their studies.

Background

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the results of the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), paving the way for qualified candidates to select schools of their choice.

Following the release of the results, qualified candidates are required to select a Senior High School, a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) school, or a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institution of their choice.

According to WAEC, a total of 620,243 candidates, comprising 304,415 males and 315,828 females from 20,789 schools, were registered for the examination.

The candidates included 136 persons with visual impairments, 282 with hearing-related needs, and 510 candidates requiring other forms of test accommodation.