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The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has stated that the ongoing school placement process will be based solely on merit.

According to him, his administration would not oversee a situation where a student with poor grades is placed in a Category A school, which consists of top-performing institutions under the placement system.

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Addressing concerns raised by some parents, the minister stated that there would be no attempts to manipulate the system, adding that anyone found culpable of trying to do so would be dealt with accordingly.

“Let me assure you that placement of persons who pass in the BECE exams is ongoing. The Director General sitting here have no access, I have no access, the Deputy Minister have no access. No Deputy Director General has access in order to guarantee the meritorious application of it.

“But sometimes there are other persons who may want to abuse it and we’ll deal with them as and when we find culprits. For instance, I would not accept a student with aggregate 37 going into a Category A school. What would be your justification for that if you hear that a student with aggregate 35 or 37 is placed in a category A school. Does he belong there meritoriously? That is questionable,” he said in a video shared online by 1957 news on Thursday, September 25, 2025.

Iddrisu, who is also the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, addressing the issue of inadequate infrastructure to accommodate the high number of students entering senior high schools across the country, said that efforts would be made to deal with the challenge.

“On this matter of boarding schools, the Director General and myself met with the leadership of CHASS. We asked them to give us a list where necessary. But to all this, it just says that government needs to invest more to expand infrastructure. If Achimota got two additional dormitory blocks and two additional state-of-the-art classrooms, it will double its intake, just as Wesley Girls, Yaa Asantewaa, Temasco, Adisadel or any other school,” he said.

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“But the question is, have we invested in them? We have not; so, don’t expect that all of a sudden, we’ll be able to place people adequately. The number of persons who wrote the exams and passed far more exceeds the opportunities available. But we have done well, at least for the first time, we’ve expanded the limit to private senior high schools. Many of the students would be placed within the context of understanding that Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) have been extended to secondary education,” he added.

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