Officials in charge of Schools Selection urged to be fair

The Reverend Monsignor Bobby Benson, Director of Mathew 25 House, an HIV Support Centre in Koforidua, has appealed to those in charge of the Computer Schools Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) to guard against manipulation.

He said though there was an indication that the system was fair, there were many questions surrounding the CSSPS that must be addressed to erase all perceptions and agitations.

Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Koforidua on developments about the CSSPS and the call by an organization to install CCTV cameras in headmasters’ offices to check manipulation, saying manipulations are not done at the schools, but rather at the computer placement level.

Monsignor Benson maintained that the manipulation of the system was done at source since the schools or the headmasters were only furnished with the names of those the computer had placed in their respective schools.

He said there had been instances where students who did better than their colleagues failed to get any of their chosen schools yet their colleagues with poor performances got admissions to that same schools and wondered why it was so.

According to him, it beat one's imagination that someone who had aggregate 16 for instance could have a better raw score than one who had aggregate 11 and urged the Ghana Education Service (GES) and all stakeholders, to ensure that the system was not manipulated.

He noted that the school choices had been increased to six and hoped that students should be able to get at least one of the six choices to prove credibility in the system. **