The Ministry of Education has extended the 2026 Senior High School placement exercise by at least one week to give students with outstanding placement issues more time to secure schools before the reopening date.

The extension will allow students undertaking self-placement or seeking changes to their residential status to complete the process ahead of the September 18 reopening.

The resolution centres across the country will remain open from Monday to Friday to address outstanding cases.

Press Secretary to the Education Minister, Hashmin Mohammed, told JoyNews that significant progress had already been made in resolving the challenges.

“Out of the 53,887 category of self-placement students, we have had 33,726 who have been able to self-place themselves into various schools and out of 9,948 reported cases at the resolution centres throughout the country, the CSSPS Secretariat has been able to resolve 4,531 so far,” he said.

Mr Mohammed said the Ministry was hoping to reduce the outstanding cases significantly before students report to school on September 18.

“The resolution centres will remain active from Monday till Friday and we are hoping that by Friday, the numbers should be able to go down because on September 18, they will report to school,” he added.