POPGISS ACCUSES GES OF UNFAIR STUDENTS PLACEMENT

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Rev. Sis. Veronica Adomako Manu receiving the gifts from Mrs. Gifty Afriyie Ghansah

Authorities of the Prince of Peace Girls’ Senior High School in Kumasi have appealed to managers of the Computer Schools Selection and Placement System, CSSPS to allocate the school with more students at the next academic year. 

This will help increase the student enrolment of the school as well as provide opportunities for more Junior High School graduates who will writing their BECE next month. 

The Headmistress of the school, Reverend Sister Veronica Adomako Manu, made the appeal in Kumasi when the Old Students presented a number of cooking equipment worth nine thousand Ghana Cedis to the Home Economics Department. 

The items include one industrial oven, two gas stoves, 10 gas cylinders and their accessories, double-door refrigerator, four water closet accessories and eight gas burners.

 Sister Adomako Manu expressed regret that in the past two academic years, Prince of Peace Girls’ SHS has not been treated fairly by the managers of the CSSPS such that in spite of the school making available the vacancies it had for new students, POPGISS, as the school is affectionately called, was allocated only 14 (in the first instance) and 15 students in the current academic year. 

The situation has contributed significantly to the low student population which now stands at 156. 

According to the Headmistress, the 33 year old Catholic SHS had informed of the GES that it had space to accommodate about 200 new students in each of the cases only to be allotted those negligible numbers of fresh students.

Reverend Sis. Adomako Manu appealed to the CSSPS to place more students in the school for the next academic year to help increase the student population.

In receiving the gifts from the Old Students, Reverend Sister Adomako thanked the past students very much for generosity which, according to her, has come at the opportune time when the first batch of the Economics Students are preparing to write their West African Secondary Schools Certificate Examinations(WASSCE) and needed the equipment badly.

 Until the gesture, she said, the students have had to procure their own practical materials such as gas cylinders and burners which are very expensive.

 The Headmistress mentioned the school’s Library and Science Laboratory as those facilities that need urgent assistance to function effectively.

 The Administrator of the Old Students Association, Mrs. Gifty Afriyie Ghansah, explained that the funds for the donation were generated from the selfless contribution of the members both home and abroad.

 She assured that the gesture will not be the last from the Association and that it is organizing itself to provide more support to the school in future, to promoter quality teaching and learning there.
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