[ 2021-02-27 ]

CSSPS goes live Sunday, 28 Feb - 343,264 Automatically placed
The 2020 Computerised School Selection and
Placement System (CSSPS) into senior high,
technical and vocational schools, will be live
Sunday, February 28, 2021.
Out of the total number of 533,693 registered
candidates, 494,530 candidates qualified to be
placed.



Automatically placed

In all, a total of 343,264 candidates have
automatically been placed in one of their choices,
while 151,266 qualified candidates could not be
matched with any of their choices.

A statement signed by the Head of the Public
Relations Unit of the Ghana Education Service
(GES), Ms Cassandra Twum Ampofo, said “all such
students are therefore, to do self-placement to
select from available schools.

“To access the placement platform, candidates
are to obtain a placement pin code from an
approved vendor, log onto the site
www.cssps.gov.gh, enter the 10-digit index number
and add 20 as year of completion,” the statement
explained.



It said for instance that if a student’s index
number was 1234567890, 20 would be added to the
number to make it 123456789020, “then enter the
pin code details (serial number and pin), click on
submit and wait for placement to show up.”

The candidate, the statement added, should print
the form, if placed, and visit the school to begin
the admission process.

Self-placement

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“If a student is not matched with any of their
choices from the automatic placement system, they
will be redirected to the self-placement portal.

“From the portal, select a school by providing
the region, residential preference, school,
programme of choice, click on submit, print the
form and visit the school to begin admission
process ,” the statement directed.



It explained that schools selected on the
self-placement portal could be changed as many
times as candidates wished on the portal until
they enrolled in a school.

Assurance

“Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES)
wishes to assure all students, especially, those
who could not be matched with their choices during
the automatic placement, parents and the general
public that all schools with vacancies have been
uploaded on the portal for students to select from
during self-placement without hitches.

“The public is also informed that the National
Solution Centre will not be set up this year due
to COVID-19. Instead, the GES Call Centre will be
active to receive complaints and concerns,” the
statement said.

It gave the call centre numbers as 0900800700 and
0302987654.

Delays

Earlier last week, the Director-General of the
GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa explained that
the placement of candidates under the CSSPS had,
over the years, always been done two or three
weeks to the reopening of schools, and “this
year’s is no different”.

“Usually we give them some two or three weeks to
prepare to go to school and we wanted to keep to
that,” he said.

Prof. Opoku-Amankwa also explained that there had
been no delay in the placement, as some people
were speculating, saying the same format that was
used during the pre-COVID-19 era was what the GES
had stuck to this year.

He said the period of waiting after the results
were released afforded the GES to engage with the
WAEC to ensure that majority of the candidates
whose results were withheld had the results
released to them.

On December 16, last year when WAEC released the
results, 977 candidates had their subject results
withheld, pending the outcome of investigations.

Source - Graphic Online

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