The 2020 Computerised School Selection and Placement
System (CSSPS) into
senior high, technical, and vocational schools, will be live Sunday, February
28, 2021.
Out of the total number of
533,693 registered candidates, 494,530 candidates qualified to be placed.
Automatically placed
In all, a total of 343,264
candidates have automatically been placed in one of their choices, while
151,266 qualified candidates could not be matched with any of their choices.
A statement signed by the Head of the Public
Relations Unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Ms. Cassandra Twum Ampofo, said “all such students are,
therefore, to do self-placement to select from available schools.
“To access the placement
platform, candidates are to obtain a placement pin code from an approved
vendor, log onto the site www.cssps.gov.gh, enter the 10-digit index number and
add 20 as year of completion,” the statement explained.
It said for instance that if a student’s index number
was 1234567890, 20 would be added to the number to make
it 123456789020, “then enter the pin code details (serial number and
pin), click on submit and wait for placement to show up.”
The candidate, the statement added, should print the form, if
placed, and visit the school to begin the admission process.
Self-placement
“If
a student is not matched with any of their choices from the automatic placement
system, they will be redirected to the self-placement portal.
“From
the portal, select a school by providing the region, residential preference,
school, programme of choice, click on submit, print the form and visit the
school to begin admission process ,” the statement directed.
It
explained that schools selected on the self-placement portal could be changed
as many times as candidates wished on the portal until they enrolled in a
school.
Assurance
“Management
of the Ghana Education Service (GES) wishes to assure all students, especially,
those who could not be matched with their choices during the automatic
placement, parents and the general public that all schools with vacancies have
been uploaded on the portal for students to select from during self-placement
without hitches.
“The
public is also informed that the National Solution Centre will not be set up
this year due to COVID-19. Instead, the GES Call Centre will be active to
receive complaints and concerns,” the statement said.
It gave the call centre numbers
as 0900800700 and 0302987654.
Delays
Earlier last week, the
Director-General of the GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa explained that the
placement of candidates under the CSSPS had, over the years, always been done
two or three weeks to the reopening of schools, and “this year’s is no
different”.
“Usually we give them some two
or three weeks to prepare to go to school and we wanted to keep to that,” he
said.
Prof. Opoku-Amankwa also
explained that there had been no delay in the placement, as some people were
speculating, saying the same format that was used during the pre-COVID-19 era
was what the GES had stuck to this year.
He said the period of waiting
after the results were released afforded the GES to engage with the WAEC to
ensure that majority of the candidates whose results were withheld had the
results released to them.
On December 16, last year when
WAEC released the results, 977 candidates had their subject results withheld,
pending the outcome of investigations.
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