SHS placement to be out by Sunday
About 525,000 qualified BECE candidates will be placed into 721 senior high, technical and vocational schools across the country
Jonas Danquah 
This year’s SHS placement for JHS leavers, will be out on Sunday, February 21, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has revealed.
The placement will cover candidates, both school and private, who wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in 2020, as well as other re-entrants.
About 525,000 qualified BECE candidates will be seeking placement into 721 senior high, technical and vocational schools of their choices which have declared about 535,000 vacancies.
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As contained in an article by 'Graphic.com', Prof. Opoku-Amankwa said Prof. Opoku-Amankwa said over the years, the number of candidates who qualified to be placed was always far below the vacancies available, “and every year when we do our placement, just as we get oversubscribed schools, we also get under-subscribed schools”.
He said only about 100 schools, out of the 721 were usually oversubscribed.
He however added that there were enough vacancies for the candidates, for which reason there was no need for any candidate or parent to panic.
The director-general explained that the challenge with the CSSPS had always been an issue of choice and not the availability of spaces.
