New SHS Selection Guidelines: 620,000 students complete School choices as process ends Friday

Guidelines Per the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) guidelines issued on August 3, 2026, candidates who sat this year's BECE would be allowed to select a maximum of two Category A schools for placement into SHSs and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions under the CSSPS.

In view of the change in the selection policy, parents, guardians and their wards began thronging basic schools from last Monday to go through the selection exercise of the BECE graduates’ second cycle school choices.

School heads, parents The Head teacher of Awudome ‘1’ Junior High School, Janet Owusua, said it was left with just one candidate to finish with the selection exercise as of 2 p.