The Conference of Heads (Proprietors) of Private Second-Cycle Schools (CHOPSS) has published the list of private SHSs in good standing as 54,985 BECE candidates miss placement.
CHOPSS list covers schools operating across 14 regions of Ghana, including Ahafo, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, Oti, Upper East, Upper West, Volta, Western and Western North.
According to CHOPSS, the publication is to make member schools more available to the public, particularly families preparing to make decisions about senior high school education.
Also, CHOPSS, in a statement issued on September 3, noted that it has taken notice of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System, indicating that 54,985 candidates did not qualify for placement into Senior High Schools.
CHOPSS stated, “Private Second-Cycle Schools across the country are ready and willing to absorb these students and provide them with quality second-cycle education and the opportunity to pursue their academic aspirations.”
CHOPSS schools list offers a broad range of programmes, giving students options beyond the traditional General Arts and General Science courses.
The list further detailed that some schools also offer specialised technical and applied courses. These include Electrical Engineering, Automobile Engineering, Building Construction Technology and Electronics.
Also, some institutions have expanded their programmes to include areas such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Computer Science, Information Technology, Biomedical Science, Languages and Global Studies.
The list comes on the heels of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) Secretariat Coordinator, Sherif Sulemana, disclosing that 55,000 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)candidates fail to meet requirements for placement.
He detailed that out of the nearly 620,000 who sat for the BECE exams, about 565,000 candidates have qualified for placement into Senior High Schools.
He explained that candidates who fail in either English or Mathematics are disqualified, even if they perform well in other subjects.
Speaking on JoyFM’s Super Morning Show on Thursday, September 3, Mr Sherif stated, “Based on our analysis, we have about 565,000 qualified for placement this year”.
“Those people have not failed in either English or Mathematics. So, you are disqualified from placement if you have failed in either English or Mathematics,” Mr Sherif explained.
He disclosed that the examination results also revealed varying levels of performance among candidates.
“You find out somebody got one, somebody got ten over 100, somebody got, say, twelve, twenty over 100, and that qualifies as a failure,” he said.
Mr Sherif further disclosed that approximately 55,000 candidates did not meet the requirements for placement.
When asked about the number of candidates who did not qualify for placement, he stated, “There are about 55,000”.
“If you look at the data for the performance of the candidates, we only had about 17 per cent of the candidates getting aggregates from 6 to 18,” he said.
“We only had about 252,000, or about 35 per cent of the candidates, getting from aggregate 6 to 24,” he added.
See the list below:
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