The Ghana
Education Service (GES) has issued a warning to heads of Senior High Schools
who charge first-year students unapproved fees.
It said such
heads will be sanctioned because the acts are illegal and will not be
tolerated.
Parents have
complained about unapproved fees levied by school administrators and items not
approved in the prospectus for new students.
Cassandra Twum
Ampofo, Head of Public Relations at the Ghana Education Service, told
journalists in Accra that school heads flouting regulations will face serious
disciplinary action.
“We are
cautioning the heads who are going contrary to what we have discussed. We’ve
realized that some were adding A4 sheets, mosquito coils and all of that in the
prospectus. For us, that was really worrying, so we had to caution them to let
them know that, that wasn’t what we agreed on.”
First-year SHS
students began reporting to school on Monday, February 27, 2023, following the
release of the school placement for graduates of the 2022 Basic Education
Certificate Examination (BECE) into SHSs and Technical, Vocational, Education
and Training (TVET) schools across the country.
Out of the
547,329 candidates who sat for the examination, 538,399 qualified for school
placement.
372,780
candidates were automatically placed into various schools.
However, 165,601
candidates had to do self-placement because they could not be matched to their
school of choice.
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