Abuakwa South MP Dr Kingsley Agyemang has intimated that the large number of BECE candidates who were not placed in any of their selected schools shows a major problem with this year’s placement exercise.
He said the situation was foreseeable and that he had earlier warned the government about the possible consequences.
“I hinted strongly that we were going to get to this position, and truth be told, this is where we are now,” he said.
Dr Agyemang also questioned the decision to maintain school categorisation while operating the current placement policy. He argued that such a system would work better if schools were not categorised and all institutions had an equal chance of being selected.
“You do that when you know that you don’t have any categorisation and all schools have an equal chance of being selected,” he said on Joy News.
He maintained that the government failed to heed his earlier concerns about the policy.
“I told them this was the hazard that was going to happen,” he said.
Dr Agyemang described the current placement difficulties as worse than the previous exercise, which he said was already chaotic.
“The BECE was quite not impressive; overall performance, where we have the huge number who have not been placed in any of the schools that they selected, is quite a problem,” he said.
