CSSPS Chaos: GNECC demands investigations into 2019 school placement brouhaha
The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) is demanding a full-scale investigation into circumstances that led to the chaos surrounding 2019 Senior High School placements.
According to GNECC, the situation is “an embarrassment to the country, bearing in mind the billions of cedis that the tax payer is expending every year to fund the free SHS policy.”
The statement comes in the wake of news reports by the Ghana Education Service (GES) suggesting this year’s Senior High school placement was sabotaged.
The coalition in a signed statement said it wants an independent committee to probe the matter and make its findings public as well as propose reforms that will ensure a credible and accountable Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).
It noted “We hereby demand a full scale investigation by an Independent Committee to assess the current operational framework and system and ascertain the cause of the breach of the system’s security and integrity, thereby permitting access to saboteurs. The Committee should then make PUBLIC its report with recommendation on how an independent, credible and accountable CSSPS regime can be ensured in Ghana.”
The coalition in its statement added that some key staff at the CSSPS secretariat who were transferred after the new government game into office in 2017 should be called in.
It further said, “dissolving the Technical Working Committee comprising key sector stakeholders, such as teachers, head teachers and parents which had some oversight of the CSSPS Secretariat exposed the CSSPS secretariat to undue political influence.”