Some anxious parents of students who sat for the 2017 BECE have expressed frustration over failed attempts to secure placement in Senior High Schools across the country.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) announced September 1st, that it had released placements for prospective Senior High School students. Its website thereafter advertised that parents and their wards can access their Senior High School (SHS) admissions notices.
However, many have not been able to access the website because it has been suffering a recurring downtime.
Those who attempted to access the website were met with error notices or managed to get in after several failed attempts.
Others who have not been placed yet, are also frustrated they have to beat a 48-hour deadline given by the GES for them to a select preferred school, which has become almost impossible due to the website crash.
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A parent Patience Lamptey lamented to primenewsghana that she tried severally without success to to access the site.
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}Meanwhile, speaking to the press on Monday, a Deputy Minister of Education in charge of pre-Tertiary Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, said the government is working to overcome the Internet-based challenges that have beset the Computerized School Selection Placement Secretariat (CSSPS), and frustrated Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) graduates.
GES announced earlier today, Tuesday, September 5, 2017, that the deadline has been extended to midnight Thursday, September 7, 2017.
A statement signed by the Deputy Minister of Education in charge of pre-Tertiary Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, said this extension was done “in view of the challenges experienced.â€
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