It appears the overall purpose of the government’s Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) which is to tackle corruption in the allocation of Junior High School (JHS) graduates into their preferred Senior High Schools (SHS) have been defeated.
Newsguideafrica’s investigations in selected SHSs across the country, have revealed how some officials at the CSSPS Secretariat, the Ministry of Education (MoE), the Ghana Education Services (GES) their National and District offices, and headteachers and teachers of Secondary Schools are taking monies from parents to facilitate the placement of their ‘unqualified’ wards into Category A and B Schools.
Our investigations revealed that, parents who are eager to see their children attending category A and B schools willingly paid these illegal monies through third parties some of whom have been identified as agents of the GES, MoE, CSSPS and the Head teachers).
These agents charge between Ghc5000 to Ghc20,000.
When these monies are paid, within two to three days, the JHS graduate is placed in his or her preferred choice of category A and B choices.
The deep-rooted corruption within the placement process has denied many students of their qualified or preferred choices in the category A or B schools, and this is because most of the slots have been reserved ‘for sale’ to parents who are willing to pay the illegal monies for their children who mostly do not qualify to be placed in such schools.
These corrupt acts are defeating the efforts of the Minister of Education in bringing discipline and a corrupt free placement system into the SHSs.
This portal will be mentioning names of some officials and schools entertaining such illegalities.
Newsguideafrica.com is also calling on the hardworking Minister of Education – Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum to launch investigations into all re-placement of students into the Category A and B SHSs, in order to help end these annual events of placement which has become a ‘cash-cow’ for some government officials who are supposed to be working in line with the principles and objectives of the Minister and the nation at large.
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