Convenor of the One Ghana Movement, Senyo Hosi has criticised what he describes as a widening disconnect between policy and politics in Ghana’s education sector.
According to him, the country’s political culture treats education largely as a tool for scoring political points, a mindset that hinders the long-term reforms needed to improve learning outcomes.
This comes on the back of the ongoing debate about the causes of the poor performance recorded in 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) across the country.
Speaking on The Big Issue on Channel One TV on Saturday, December 6, 2025, Senyo Hosi stressed that public debates often overemphasise social media’s impact on students’ performance while neglecting deeper structural challenges within the education system.
“The coming of social media cannot entirely be blamed as the reason for the poor performance. That conversation about social media, then the issue of the destruction will be looked at. But it will come up when it… When we used to speak pidgin English, the concern was about the distraction it caused to the language. I think that we should look at the education a bit more carefully,” he said.
Senyo Hosi stressed that improvements in education require sustained investment and patience.
“Education is an investment. It is a capital investment. When you invest in education today, you do not see the benefit till a certain latter part. So, when you invest in the students who are going to write BECE today, you may not see the outcome until a certain time.”
He argued that Ghana’s political environment often deprioritises long-term policy commitments.
“There is a certain policy-politics disconnect. The democracy we have, which is almost a mentally retarded democracy, is not helping us. When anything has to do with long-term policies, we cannot think, and we don’t want to think. We all focus on a short-term policy that will give us an outcome and consequently an electoral benefit in the next election,” he said.
Senyo Hosi added that discussions about education must not lose sight of the human impact behind the statistics.
“These are lives; our children are not statistics. When you are the Ministry of Education or any policy think tank, they will give you data, but we must remember that these are lives that will shape the trajectory of the country in the future,” he noted.