Gov’t to introduce placement system for Tertiary Institutions

The Ministry of Education is planning to introduce a placement
system for admission into tertiary institutions in Ghana.

This comes after a 9-member committee chaired by Professor Cliff
Tagoe proposed same in the Tertiary Education Policy Document
submitted on November 1, 2018, to the Ministry of Education.
The Committee proposed for a Centralized University admissions
and Placement Service (CAPS) to replace the current stressful and
expensive system of applying to different Universities.
“One proposal currently under contemplation by the Ministry of
Education has also incidentally been proposed by this draft Policy
document.
“It is the Proposal for a Centralized University admissions and
Placement Service (CAPS), which replaces the stressful and rather
expensive system of applying to separate Universities in Ghana
with a Centralized system, where the applicants list their choices of
University on a single platform.

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“A Central administrative and technical set up then facilitates the
process of placement,” the Committee said.
The Minister of State in Charge of Tertiary Education Prof Kwesi
Yankah revealed this on Friday in an ongoing stakeholder meeting
in Koforidua, Eastern Regional Capital.
He said exploratory visits have been made to UK and Nigeria by
the Ministry of Education and Vice Chancellors and Registrars to
understudy how the system works in the two countries.
He added that a national committee in centralized admissions for
Universities to be chaired by Prof. Adow Obeng, former Vice
Chancellor of University of Cape Coast currently President of
Presbyterian University college will be formally inaugurated on
Thursday, January 17, 2019, to facilitate the process.
The ongoing Workshop is being participated by all 10 Vice
Chancellors from Traditional Universities, representation from
Technical Universities, Private Universities, Principals of Colleges
of Education, regulatory bodies, the reform Secretariat of Ministry
of Education, University Teachers Association, Tertiary Education
Workers Union and other participants totaling 50.

They are deliberating and making inputs on the Tertiary Education
Policy document which seeks to bring together all relevant existing
documentation, distill relevant government policies, regulatory
policies, and legislative instruments and, policy guidelines
consistent with national development.
After the meeting, the document will be submitted to the
government for further consideration and approval.