The National Coordinator for the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), Mark Sasu Mensah, has disclosed that foreign students can also benefit from government’s Free SHS policy.
According to him, these foreign students must however be children of diplomats performing foreign services in the country to merit such an opportunity.
Making the revelation on Angel FM’s Anopa Bofoↄ breakfast show on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, Mr. Mensah stated that there are four categories of people who are placed through CSSPS and foreign students are inclusive.
He explained that though Ghanaians don’t know that foreign students also benefit from the Free SHS policy, foreign students whose parents are diplomats in Ghana performing foreign services are eligible for Free SHS.
Foreign students outside this category would have to pay to access Ghana’s secondary education.
Mr. Mensah was quick to add that there are requirements to be met to qualify.
Outlining the procedure involved, he said that one needs to first visit Secondary Education Division of the Ghana Education Service for a form.
He continued that the form should be returned after it has been properly filled with the requirements being met.
“We fix a date for writing exams and when the individual passes, they are then placed through the CSSPS”, he informed host Kofi Adoma Nwanwani.
The remaining three categories are regular students, re-entry students and private candidates.
Regular students are those who have sat for and passed the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and thus qualify to proceed to any High School of their choice.
Students who register as private candidates comprise those who failed their BECE the previous year and are thus rewriting to proceed to the next level of the academic ladder.
The re-entry system, he says was cancelled but upon a request from members of the Girl-Child Education, the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Adutwum revived it.
The re-entry is an opportunity for girls who might have truncated their education due to pregnancy as well as other students who due to prolonged sickness missed the chance to enter SHS.
