Approximately 1.39 million students will benefit from the Free Senior High School and Technical Vocational and Education Training (Free SHS/TVET) in the 2022 academic year, the Minister for Education, Dr Adutwum has said.
In an interview with Kumasi-based Nhyira FM monitored by EducationWeb, Adutwum said the inclusion of TVET to Free SHS program forms part of the government effort to ensure more students become beneficiaries of the flagship policy.
“A total of 1.39 million students are expected to benefit from the Free Senior High School and Technical Vocational and Education Training (Free SHS/TVET) in the 2022 academic year when the school placements are out,” Osei Yaw noted.
He told the Akan radio station President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government has built more infrastructures in some Technical Schools to promote Technical and Vocational Education adding that the 2022 budget will add more.
In a related development, the school placement of the over 500,000 candidates who sat for the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will be released Friday, March 25, 2022, by the management of the placement system.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng who disclosed the date in an interview with Accra-based Kessben FM said a meeting early this week was held on the release of the 2021 computer school postings.
“The stakeholders in charge of the secondary school placement on Tuesday met and a decision has been made to release the school placement by end of this week, let’s say by Friday, March 25,” the spokesman told Kessben FM.
Asked if the majority of the students who participated in the just-ended national examination will get school placement, Kwasi Kwarteng said adequate measures have been put in place to ensure they all get placement.
“All qualified BECE students will get placement but the fact that all students will be posted does not mean we are compromising quality. Students who had grade 9 in English Language and Mathematics will not be posted,” he said.
The Public Relations Officer furthered “If a student is not placed automatically, there is a chance for him or her to do self-placement at the self-placement portal and enrol into any of the various available public second cycle schools.”
SOURCE: EDUCATIONWEB
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