2.3 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION’S SUPPORT IN GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING


Ministry o f education beings a government parastatals, plays an important role in guidance and counseling through organizing various summer courses In guidance and counseling for teachers in secondary schools and other several Nigerian universities. Workshops are also being organized during the long summer vocation to furnish the secondary schools teachers with necessary skills to help the children select educational programmes, prepare for the future occupation and solve their person social issues (M.Baht, 1992).

As further advances are being made, many associations are being formed among such association we have ( CASSON) meaning Counseling Association of Nigeria which produced
a journal called the counselor in 1973, there were only fourteen (14) federal government and six (6) state secondary schools. With functional guidance programme staffed with trained guidance counselors (Oyinloye, 1984). In this tense period of frequent campus turmoil and uprising in almost all the educational level in the country. The various governments. 

Educational administration and teacher are gradually becoming aware that the expertise of professional counselors is needs more than ever before to meet the teaming population of the students in our institutions or secondary schools. There is also an increased need even non- educational setting such as employment agencies, industries, prisons, business and rehabilitation center.
Moreover, the present and future contribution of guidance movement in Nigeria will depend upon the recognition and support that the government and general public give to the profession and profession continuity sensitive to the society’s need, coupled with containing dialogues between the profession and various institution in our society.

Guidance and counseling has been introduced different times in the history of Nigerian education. The introduction of UPE Scheme in 1976 gave an opportunity to different set of children to be enrolled into schools (Danga 1976). Some gifted, some average and other sub- normal. Therefore, the Nigeria government continues to call on educators to plan out strategies for sorting out this different population of students for development, training and placement according to their paces, interests and abilities.
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