The Ministry of Education has expressed confidence in addressing concerns of parents and the Basic Education Certificate Education (BECE) graduates before school reopens on October 18 for their Senior High School.

The Ministry said it had successfully reduced the large number of parents and students who had besieged the centre in a desperate attempt to have their problems rectified.

Mr Hasmin Mohammed, the Press Secretary to the Minister of Education, said this during a visit to the school placement resolution centre at the Ghana National Association of Teachers in Accra.

Mr Mohammed said the centre had been helpful in addressing outstanding issues concerning the school placement, in spite of some challenges.

“We have been able to decongest the crowd because we have deployed a lot of personnel to attend and listen to their issues, and you yourself can now attest to the fact that we have decongested the place,” he said.

He indicated that the development would allow officials at the centre to attend to the needs of others swiftly before students are due to report to their various schools.

“Going forward we will be attending to their issues with speed to ensure they are satisfied and reduce the crowd at the centre,” he said.

Asked whether the Ministry was actively considering postponing the reopening date for first-year students of Senior High School, Mr Mohammed said there was ample time to address outstanding issues.

He said the sector Minister and his team would assess the success of the exercise and decide on the next steps.

“Well, we still have much time, and when there is the need for that, I think management and higher authorities will take a decision on that.

“But for now, we are working with the time frame that we have given to ourselves; we believe that we can be able to attend to them.”

In the last few weeks, parents and students who visited the SHS Resolution Center at the GNAT Hall have lauded the orderly and swift manner in which school placement issues are being resolved, while others expressed concerns.

He assured the public that the placement exercise would be carried out in a fair, transparent and merit-based manner.

Mr Mohammed said more than 5,000 people turned up at the centre, many of them expressing relief at the efficiency of the process.

The centre is one of the several school placement resolution centres which opened nationwide on Friday, September 18, 2025, to receive complaints

from parents and guardians for redress.

The centres, set up in major regional capitals, are designed to handle such complaints, verify placement details, and provide quick redress.

He said Senior education officials, including Dr Clement Apaak, the Deputy Minister of Education, visited the centre to assure parents and candidates of the government’s commitment to resolving all outstanding issues ahead of the scheduled reopening date for new students.

He said the Mahama administration intended to expand the Free SHS programme that was started in 2017 to ensure access to all Ghanaian students while improving the quality of teaching, learning and infrastructure.

A total of 603,328 candidates, comprising 297,520 males and 306,078 females from 20,395 participating schools, entered for the school examination on June 11 to 18, 2025.

The WAEC on Saturday, August 24, in a statement to

the Ghana News Agency, released the provisional results of the 2025 BECE school candidates, with the entire results of 177 candidates cancelled.

The subject results of 718 candidates have been cancelled, while 1,240 candidates’ subject results are being withheld.

Additionally, 93 candidates’ entire results have been withheld.