Owusu Aboagye “Cartoon” Criticizes Ghana’s Education Reforms on SVTV Africa: “We Are Joking with Our Education System”
Ghanaian educator Owusu Aboagye, popularly known as Cartoon, has expressed deep concern over the state of Ghana’s education system during an interview on SVTV Africa’s Daily Hustle Worldwide Show with DJ Nyaami.
According to Mr. Owusu, recent attempts by Education Minister Hon. Haruna Iddrisu to change the national syllabus through local directives by the Ghana Education Service (GES) will not be effective if not properly planned and implemented.
He explained that Ghana’s education policies often fail because they lack continuity and consistency. “Our politicians like to start things small-small and leave them for the next government to struggle with. They believe Ghanaians will forget, but this attitude keeps dragging our education system backwards,” he lamented.
Mr. Owusu argued that the idea of assigning teachers to specific regions without considering transfers or cross-posting will not work. “If someone is trained in the Volta Region and later gets posted to another city, how will that help the system? Instead of forcing people to stay in certain regions, the government should make rural areas attractive so that people will willingly go there to learn and serve,” he advised.
He also criticized the current syllabus, noting that subjects are being mixed without logical connections. “When I left Ghana, I realized that even agricultural science had collapsed. Now, they’ve added biology to visual arts and general arts just to push students into nursing. There’s no link between biology and business, but they’re doing it to increase nursing enrollment,” he said.
Mr. Owusu further emphasized that Ghana’s education system trains students to work for the government instead of nurturing entrepreneurship. “We prepare children to complete school and seek government jobs. Why can’t we train them to start their own businesses?” he asked.
He cited the example of artisans and professionals: “Doctors spend six years in school before they can practice, but mechanics, who didn’t perform well academically, can fix our cars after apprenticeship. That shows practical education also matters.”
Touching on agriculture, he noted that Ghana’s policies are inconsistent. “Sometimes, we have plenty of plantain, and other times it vanishes from the market. We need a stable system that supports farmers,” he added.
Concluding his remarks, Mr. Owusu Aboagye warned that Ghana’s education sector is in decline and requires urgent attention. “Our education system keeps going down. We are joking with it. Until we take education seriously and plan beyond political terms, the future of our children will remain uncertain,” he said passionately.
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