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Parents urged to prioritise school choices before subjects
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Parents have been advised to prioritise selecting suitable Senior High Schools for their wards before considering subject combinations during placement.
The advice comes as parents across the Volta Region troop to various Junior High Schools to assist their wards in making selections for the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).
In the Volta Region, Mawuli School, OLA Senior High School, Bishop Herman College, Anlo Senior High Technical School and Kpando Technical Institute are among the Category A institutions, making them highly sought-after choices.
Mr Silvester Akubia, Headteacher of a school in the Ho West District, told the Ghana News Agency that parents should concentrate on the school and programme before worrying about specific subject combinations.
“The most important thing is the course that the person will offer. The subject combination should not be the first consideration during the selection process,” he said.
He explained that parents should first identify at least eight preferred schools before visiting the JHS, adding that the current selection required candidates to choose five boarding schools and three-day schools.
“You must have those schools in mind or write them down before you go to the school. The selection is eight schools, so you must have at least eight schools in mind,” Mr Akubia said.
Mr Johannes Ekpe-Asrevi, Headteacher of Have EP Basic School in the Afadzato South District, said parents were not compelled to follow a particular distribution of Category A, B and C schools, provided the required number of boarding and day choices was maintained.
“Somebody can decide to pick one from Category A, three from Category B and five from Category C. It does not matter, but you must make sure that you have five boarding schools and three-day schools,” he said.
Mr Ekpe-Asrevi also advised parents to print their wards’ results and examine their grades before making selections, explaining that the competitiveness of boarding placement could depend on candidates’ academic performance and the number of applicants choosing a particular school.
“The school you are taking as your fifth choice may be the same school somebody is taking as the first choice, so the grades and the order of choice can become important,” he added. –GNA
President John Dramani Mahama will be joining African heads of state, business leaders, investors and innovators shaping Africa’s next chapter, at the inaugural Alamein Africa Forum scheduled to take place from 2nd to 4th October 2026 in the historic city of Alamein on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.
The three-day Alamein Africa Forum is established as a permanent African Business Forum to convene biennially in Egypt.
It is to become the continent’s premier gathering where political power meets entrepreneurial prowess, bridging the established engines of African growth with the new sectors defining its future.
Co-organised by the Government of Egypt, African Export – Import Bank (Afreximbank), the African Union and AUDA-NEPAD, it is expected to bring together more than twenty (20) heads of state and government representatives alongside business leaders, bankers and development institutions.
Ghana’s President, who on 23rd September 2026 declared Ghana is open for business in New York after ringing the ceremonial closing bell at the Nasdaq Stock Market will be leading the Ghanaian delegation, to include the Minister for Trade, Agribusiness, and Industry, Elizabeth Ofosu – Adjare, to the forum.
Other members of the Ghanaian delegation are the Head and Presidential Advisor for Ghana’s 24-Hour Economy and Accelerated Export Development Programme, Hon. Augustus Goosie Tanoh, Ghana’s Special Envoy to the Alliance of Sahel States, Colonel Larry Gbevlo – Lartey alongside key Ghanaian private sector players.
Bringing together leaders in politics, business and policy from across the continent, the Alamein Africa Forum will provide a unique opportunity to shape Africa’s growth agenda by aligning policy and investment priorities, mobilising partnerships for implementation and strengthening financing and investment pathways.
The private sector must become an integral part of Agenda 2063, the African Union’s strategic fifty-year masterplan to transform the continent. The private sector is the core economic engine required to turn the African 2063 from an aspirational government roadmap into realized infrastructure, jobs, and value-added trade.
By Chris KONEY
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Contractors move to site to begin construction of 120-Bed Trauma Hospital at Bole – Felix Kwakye Ofosu
Minister for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has revealed that contractors have moved to site to begin construction of a 120-bed Specialised Trauma and Emergency Hospital at Bole in the Savannah Region.
According to the Minister, the 16,000 square metre facility will be equipped with modern medical infrastructure to provide emergency and trauma care.
The hospital will have a 24-hour Accident and Emergency Unit, trauma resuscitation bays, emergency operating theatres, an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a High Dependency Unit (HDU).
It will also include specialised trauma wards, a burns treatment unit, orthopaedic and surgical units, as well as imaging and diagnostic facilities, among others.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
