2025 School Placement Portal Opens for BECE Candidates
- The School Placement Portal is open for candidates of the Basic Education Certificate Examination
- The portal will remain accessible for a short window for candidates to verify their school details
- The computerised school placement, based on the selection of schools, starts on September 17, 2025
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The 2025 School Placement Portal for candidates of the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) opened on September 1, 2025,
The portal will remain accessible up until September 8, 2025, to allow candidates to verify their details before the final placements are released.
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Speaking to the media on August 27, Professor Ernest Kofi Davis, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, stated that data processing had already begun.
“Placement will be matched against available vacancies in second-cycle institutions. This process is expected to take no more than three weeks.
"From September 1 to September 8, the portal will be open for candidates to review their school choices, biodata, and other relevant information."
The computerised school placement, based on the selection of schools, will start on September 17, 2025.
The education ministry has assured stakeholders of a fair and transparent system.
It has also assured that the placement will be merit-based and implored parents to report any form of corruption.
First-year senior high school students are expected to report to their new schools between October 18 and October 20.
New guidelines for school selection in 2025
Under the new guidelines outlined by the Ghana Education Service, candidates were expected to select five schools of their choice and two others, making seven in total.
As part of the selection, candidates are expected to select one school from category A, not more than two schools from category B. However, candidates can select all five schools from category C.
Candidates interested in TVET education are required to select all five choices in TVET schools, but in the same order of one from category A, not more than two from category B, or all five schools from category C.
Out of the five schools, a candidate is expected to select three of them as boarding and two of them as day schools.
WAEC releases 2025 BECE results
The 2025 BECE results were released by the governing examination council on August 23. Over 600,000 candidates from 20,395 schools wrote the examination.
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It was also reported that the entire results of 177 BECE candidates had been cancelled.
The subject results of 718 candidates were cancelled, while the entire results of 93 candidates were withheld, and 1,240 candidates had their subject results withheld.
GES to revert double-track SHSs to single-track
YEN.com.gh also previously reported that the Ghana Education Service had announced plans to revert Senior High School (SHS) from the double-track to the single-track system in the 2025/2026 academic year.
Beginning in October 2025, about 99 double-track schools will be moved back to the traditional single-track system. The reversion will allow students to have a more traditional and uninterrupted academic calendar.
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Source: YEN.com.gh
