{"id":13353,"date":"2025-09-27T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13353"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:17:01","slug":"school-placement-kill-the-elephant-called-protocol-former-ges-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13353","title":{"rendered":"School Placement: \u201cKill the elephant called protocol\u201d \u2013 Former GES Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jeg_navbar_mobile_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_navbar_mobile jeg_sticky_nav\" data-mode=\"fixed\">\n<div class=\"jeg_mobile_bottombar jeg_mobile_midbar jeg_container normal\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_row\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_col jeg_nav_center jeg_nav_grow\">\n<div class=\"item_wrap jeg_nav_aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_item jeg_mobile_logo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-wrap\">\n<div class=\"jeg_main \">\n<div class=\"jeg_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_content jeg_singlepage\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"jeg_main_content col-md-8\">\n<div class=\"jeg_inner_content\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta jeg_post_meta_1\">\n<div class=\"meta_left\">\n<div class=\"google-anno-skip google-anno-sc\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" aria-label=\"School supplies\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">A former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Charles Aheto-Tsegah, has said the recurring confusion over the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) can only be resolved if the long-standing issue of protocol is decisively addressed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content no-share\">\n<div class=\"content-inner \">\n<div class=\"post-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-wrap\">\n<div class=\"jeg_main \">\n<div class=\"jeg_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_content jeg_singlepage\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"jeg_main_content col-md-8\">\n<div class=\"jeg_inner_content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content no-share\">\n<div class=\"content-inner \">\n<p data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"724\">Speaking on\u00a0<em data-start=\"426\" data-end=\"441\">The Big Issue<\/em> on Channel One TV on Saturday, September 27, 2025, Mr. Aheto-Tsegah argued that protocol \u2014 which he described as pressure on headmasters from parents to admit students outside the system \u2014 remains the \u201csmall elephant in the room\u201d that continues to undermine the placement process.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"726\" data-end=\"926\">\u201cThe protocol has actually been expanding, and that is what we have to deal with. If we want to be very fair and equitable, we need to kill that small elephant in the room called protocol,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"928\" data-end=\"1057\">He further described the CSSPS as \u201cdead on arrival,\u201d insisting that the placement mechanism was flawed from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"a-single a-10\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t even know how to manage protocol in the system, even though we knew that it was an ever-present issue in that process, so we could manage it and we have lived with that system right from the beginning,\u201d he stated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Charles Aheto-Tsegah, has said the recurring confusion over the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) can only be resolved if the long-standing issue of protocol is decisively addressed. 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