Mr Lee Ocran (extreme left) Minister of Education being assisted by Mrs Elizabeth Amoah Tetteh, to cut the tape to open an exhibition mounted by the GES. Those with them are Ms Benedicta Naana Biney (right) Acting Director-General of the GES and Mrs Janet Ampadu Fofie, GES Council Member. Measures are currently being put in place to ensure that both graduates of the three-year and four-year systems of senior high school enter university and other tertiary institutions at the same time next year, the Minister of Education, Mr Lee Ocran has announced.
He gave the assurance that the two batches of final year SHS students who will complete school in 2013 will be given placements in the tertiary institutions across the country.
Next year, the first batch of three-year SHS graduates under the Professor Mills administration and the final batch of four-year SHS graduates will write the 2013 May-June West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Concerns have been raised as to how the two batches or streams (Forms 3 and 4) of SHS graduates would be given admissions in the various universities and tertiary institutions, especially the public ones, given the limited number of spaces available in those institutions.
“However, Mr Ocran, speaking at the opening of an exhibition by the Ghana Education Service (GES) as part of activities to mark Public Service Week Celebration in Accra said no matter what it took, the two batches of graduates would have admissions in tertiary institutions next year.
“Nobody will stay at home,” he assured, adding that failure to do that will result in one batch of graduates staying home for a whole year.
The cycle, he said, would then continue again after another year, thereby resulting in a backlog of students.
