Adutwum provides information on SHS/TVET placement and enrollment.

Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum says 518,717 students out of the 555,252 who qualified for SHS/TVET placement as of last Friday have successfully been placed into their respective second cycle schools across the country.

Speaking to journalists, he said 320,773 representing 93.4 per cent of 2021 BECE students who qualified for placement have been enrolled on various Senior High School and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).

The Education Minister following the enormous achievement in the ongoing placement exercise commended stakeholders associated with the school placement and encouraged them to ensure all placed students are enrolled.

“On Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), as of Friday evening, 51,267 students have been placed in only TVET schools of which 25,941 had also enrolled,” Mr Adutwum told the media at a
press briefing in Accra.

Commenting on what has not gone well since the start of the school placement, the Minister for Education said parents and students have disregarded the procedure earlier communicated in regard to placement challenges.

The Teaching Minister noted that parents of students who were asked to do self-placement rather stormed the resolution centres meant for those who had been placed but with challenges to seek placement for their wards.

“I wonder why some parents waited till schools reopened before they started rushing to do either self-placement or rushing to the resolution centres which were virtually empty during the first week of the placement exercise,” Yaw said.

Coordinator of Free SHS Secretariat, Mr William Darkwa considering the slow school enrolment at the press briefing said his outfit in due will course will embark on an enrolment drive to ensure that all placed students are enrolled.

As part of efforts to support the Free SHS policy, he entreated Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies to take a keen interest in the school placement and enrolment exercise to ensure qualified students are in school.

“We urge stakeholders in communities to complement the government’s effort by assisting brilliant but needy students in their communities who had been placed in any school with some of the items needed so they could enrol,” he said.

CREDIT: Educationweb