CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN SOCIETY AS REBRANDING DYNAMICS FOR NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Abstract

The primary objective of any educational system is to provide for the existential needs of the society it is designed to serve. When any society is unable to provide for the meaningful existence of its members, it perhaps implies that the educational system of that society is at the verge of failure. Based on this premise of thought, this paper critically examines the challenges, problems and structural/contextual deficits in contemporary Nigerian society as credible but perhaps strategic vectors for re-branding of Nigerian educational system. The paper examines practically how Nigerian school system could usefully assist in fixing some major generic problems currently facing the Nigerian nation. Based on this line of thinking as proposed in this presentation, any country with major challenges and problems like Nigeria may need to rebrand her school system along the line of retooling and re-skilling school products to adequately provide solutions to the challenges facing the society. The worth of any educational system may perhaps be best assessed on its intrinsic capacity for promoting societal economic progress, societal self renewal and sustainability of locally meaningful and relevant global standards.