53,887 Students Get Second Chance • BECE Candidates Offered SHS Self-Placement

Unplaced Candidates To Access Self-Placement – Apaak

Dr. Clement Apaak   The Ministry of Education has announced that students who were not placed in Senior High Schools (SHSs) after the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) can Read More...

53,887 students get second chance • BECE candidates offered SHS self-placement

Some 53,887 students who failed to meet the requirements for automatic placement in the 2026 Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) have been given a second opportunity to gain admission to senior high schools (SHSs) and technical institutions through self-placement. The figure represents 94.1 per cent of the 57,259 candidates who fell outside the …

BECE: Unplaced candidates should not all be labelled failures, says former GES director

Former Ghana Education Service (GES) Director-General Dr Charles Aheto-Tsegah says the 54,985 candidates who were not placed in public Senior High Schools (SHS) and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions should not automatically be regarded as academic failures. Dr Aheto-Tsegah has urged the Ministry of Education to provide a more detailed breakdown of […] The post BECE: Unplaced candidates should not all be labelled…

BECE: Not all 54,985 unplaced candidates are failures – Aheto-Tsegah

Former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr Charles Aheto-Tsegah, has challenged the classification of the 54,985 candidates who were not placed in public Senior High Schools (SHS) and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions, arguing that the figure should not be interpreted as a measure of academic failure. He said the [...]