Sunyani Catholic Bishop Slams Computerised Placement System The Catholic Bishop of Sunyani, Most Reverend Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi,is calling on government to restructure the Computerised School Selection Placement System (CSSPS) because it is an unfair and unjust procedure. He says the CSSPS as a method for determining entrance to Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the country amounts to a great injustice against Junior High School (JHS) products in deprived rural schools. The Bishop, is therefore, calling on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to streamline the system for fair-play in the interest of JHS graduates in rural areas. Most Reverend Gyamfi explains that JHS students from the deprived schools in rural areas are disadvantaged because they do not have equal access to facilities such as computers and other learning materials like their counterparts in the cities and urban centres. He contends that the provision of 30 per cent allocation by the CSSPS for enhanced SHS entry opportunities for locals does not justify that the practice is fairly helping rural dwellers and deprived JHSs students to gain admissions to SHSs of their choices. Bishop Kwasi Gyamfi is proposing that the GES should increase the 30 per cent allocation to 60 per cent for locals to ensure fair treatment in the admission process, saying that it would not even be fair enough for all stakeholders. Most Rev. Gyamfi argues that even though “all the schools are not owned by the government” it is the Metropolitan, Municipal and District (MMD) Directors of Education who often do the allocation. He indicates that some of the schools belong to the churches and therefore suggests the allocation should be church-based and community-based, depending on the ownership of the SHSs involved.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:20:43 +0000