Parents and guardians of 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates must select Senior High Schools between Tuesday, May 27, and Friday, June 6, ahead of the main examination on June 11.
The new arrangement, including Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) schools, aims to address challenges in the selection process.
Mrs Benita Sena Okity-Duah, National Coordinator, Free Senior High School Secretariat, announced this at a press briefing in Accra on Tuesday.
She urged parents and guardians to assist candidates in selecting seven schools for SHS/TVET enrolment.
She explained that ve schools should be ranked in order of preference, while two alternative schools should be selected from Appendix “3” for consideration if placement in the ve main choices is unsuccessful.
Parents must select programmes and residential preferences, including three boarding and two-day schools.
Mrs Okity-Duah stated that one category B school could be chosen as a boarding school and another as a day school. A category C school could also be selected as a boarding or day school.
She announced that candidates cannot select more than one school from category A and cannot choose more than two schools from category B.
Parents may select all five choices from category C, including three boarding and two-day schools.
Candidates opting for TVET programmes must select five institutes from categories A, B, and C, as day or boarding schools.
Those considering career-driven STEM programmes, such as engineering or medicine, must choose STEM/science schools in all five selections from categories A, B, and C, as day or boarding options.
She urged parents and guardians to assist candidates in filling out and signing the school selection form and submitting it to the Junior High School Headteacher.
Mrs Okity-Duah advised parents to carefully choose schools, noting that placements would not be changed.
She said a team from the Ministry of Education and Ghana Education Service had been deployed across regions to sensitise the public on the new guidelines.
She announced that the government had reduced the quota placement for public schools from 30 per cent to 15 per cent.
Mr Obenfo Nana Kwasi Gyetuah, National Executive Director, Ghana National Council of Private Schools, welcomed the quota reduction.
“For now, we are okay with the reduction. We hope it will further be reduced in years to come to give equal opportunities to both public and private schools for placement,” he said
