Dennis Miracle Aboagye, Director of Communications for Dr. Bawumia's 2024 campaign, has criticised Ghana’s current education system as outdated, rigid, and in urgent need of reform.

Speaking on Channel One TV’s Breakfast Daily on Wednesday, June 11, Aboagye expressed concern about the structure and content of the country’s educational framework, describing it as unsuitable for the needs of the modern student.

“I have been an advocate against our educational system from content, curriculum, and structure. I think it is outmoded. A lot of this must change from infrastructure to the rules, to even how we study. It is stifling. The environment, I mean everything that happens around the education system, is very poor,” he said.

His comments come as over 600,000 candidates sit for the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) across the country.

Aboagye questioned long-standing practices such as intense exam scheduling and the number of subjects students are required to take.

“Curriculum-wise, why are we writing so many subjects? How do you expect these kids to write two papers in a day?” he asked.

He also criticized what he described as Ghana’s resistance to change, noting that many outdated traditions persist without clear justification.

“In Ghana, I think we have a problem with change. So there are so many things that we have carried on from the past, and we do with them, meanwhile, we do not know why we do it.”

Drawing comparisons with global education systems, Mr. Aboagye argued that the issue isn’t about class or economic status, but about curriculum quality and relevance.

“When you put the Cambridge curriculum student compared to the GES curriculum student, it is not about economic class, it is about content. The level of appreciation and understanding of life is different. The Cambridge class understand and appreciates things better than the GES kids," he said.