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About 11,000 Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) candidates who qualified for placement into senior high and technical schools are yet to be placed under the Computerised Schools Selection and Placement System (CSSPS). Out of about 201,000 candidates who qualified for placement, 190,000 have so far been placed. Commenting on the fate of the unplaced candidates, the Head of the Public Relations Unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Charles Parker-Allotey, said there was no need for the candidates to panic as they would all be placed. He said there were still vacancies in some schools to be filled and gave the assurance that all those who were yet to be placed would be placed by the GES as soon as vacancies were declared by heads of the senior high schools. Mr Parker-Allotey directed all qualified candidates who were yet to be placed to submit photocopies of either the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) certificates of their results slips to the district directorate of education where their junior high school (JHS) is located or the regional directorate of education. He asked candidates who may have encountered problems with their index number, names and choice of schools or other problems associated with the 2009 placement to write petitions and submit them together with photocopies of the BECE certificate to their district or regional directorates of education as soon as possible. Mr Parker-Allotey said those candidates were supposed to adhere to that directives by Wednesday, October, 21, 2009, adding that candidates who have been placed in Senior High Schools but were yet to accept such schools would forfeit them if they failed to accept them (schools) by same date of Wednesday, October 21, 2009.