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.
Principal
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