Parents
can now relax since their wards who took part in this year’s Basic Education
Certificate Examination will have no difficulty getting schools to attend.
This
is due
to the construction and inauguration of Community Day Schools by President Dramani
John Mahama.
Ghana’s
1992 Republican Constitution stipulates that the country must embrace a
progressively free Senior High School education ten years upon the coming into
being of the Constitution.
However,
this is the first time a government has commenced implementing that
constitutional requirement since 1993.
The
construction of 200 community SHS in under-served rural communities across the
country is part of President Mahama’s key electoral promises he made to the
people of Ghana during the 2012 electioneering campaigns.
So far, President Mahama has
inaugurated some schools at Otuam in the Central Region, Nkwanta South in the
Volta Region, Babiamkor, and Kwaobaah-Nyanoa in the Upper West Akim District of
the Eastern region. More of the Community is expected to be inaugurated.
In
an interview the National Co-ordinator of the Computerised
School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) Mr. Kwasi Abankwa Anokye said students
have started requesting that his outfit place
them in the inaugurated community day schools. “ Each community day school is
going to absorb about 400 to 500 students
and this is going to save us from moving
from one school to another looking for vacancies for candidates” he stated.
He noted that CSSPS is prepared to commence
postings of the students into the various Senior High Schools (SHSs) as soon as
the West African Examination Council (WAEC) releases the rest of the Basic Education
Certificate Examination(BECE) results.
The Council released the results of over 400,000
BECE candidates last week leaving out others. Candidates from some 321 schools
had their results withheld by the Council, pending investigations into alleged
examination irregularities
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