Heads asked to submit names of qualified candidates

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Feb 9, 2008

THE Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked heads of senior high schools (SSS) with vacancies to forward the names of qualified Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in their localities who have not been placed to the service for regularisation.
The Director-General of the GES, Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, who made this known in an interview, said, “We have asked the heads of schools with vacancies to submit the names of those who have not been placed for us to regularise their admission.”
He said the decision to allow the heads to submit the names of those who had not been placed was taken about three weeks ago and that the move was to ensure that all those who qualified for placement and had not been placed got schools.
According to Mr Bannerman-Mensah, most candidates did not select schools in their localities, thereby making it difficult for them to get schools in their areas of residence.
Investigations by the Daily Graphic have revealed that most community schools have many vacancies as a result of the failure of BECE candidates to select schools in their communities.