The major function of pupils’ personnel
services is to help the school and mostly the pupils to accomplish educational
goals and objectives in Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna state of
Nigeria. As Omonogie (1973:38) noted that to ensure
adequate pupils personnel services for either an entire school system or for an
individual in an educational institution, provision is usually made in such
areas as child study guidance and counseling, testing, visiting, teaching and
social workers, speech and hearing special education for the physically
handicapped, emotionally disturbed, mental retardation and the mentally gifted.
These services should be provided to students in all schools in Kaduna North
Local Government Area
in Kaduna state of Nigeria.
Campbekk (1973:151-152) remarked that, in
these areas, the school authorities have the responsibility of providing the
services as they can fit orderly appropriate and adequate. He contended that in
the course of actual implementation of the public personnel programmes,
provision should be made to accommodate criticism and suggestions for the
improvement of the facilities by the schools and the pupils of themselves. He
future stated that the area participation
in the pupils personnel services at the secondary school and tertiary levels
includes taking decision on the quality and quantity of the facilities to be
provide and their effective and
functional and administration. He also pointed out that the pupils should be
free to make suggestion on how to improve such facilities and channel of
communication for this purpose should also be likely defined to suit the pupils’
needs.
Abin (1974:75) remarked that pupils personnel
services in school embraces all those activities aimed at promoting the pupils social
and emotional welfare in public education. In this regards the administration
should organize a sort of education programme school guidance and
counseling services for the development
of each pupil which wiil be based on advice to be given to pupils.
According to Ozigi(1977:45), the
administration should establish a post
of a career master and appoint any interested member of staff to the
position, and he should try to find out if any training opportunity for him to
be trained as a counselor. Moreover, good guidance and counseling services
should be provided throughout the entire school life of the pupils so as to
help the individual pupils with particular problems and difficulties to find
solution to their problem
Finally,
Adaralegbe (1975:63) declared that an ideal administration ensures that every
student should be given adequate opportunity reinforcement and motivation to
carry out his study. This researcher suggest that schools should encourage
extra-curricular activities like ensuring that adequate school heath services
.boarding facilities moral and civil orientations are maintained in the schools in Kaduna North
Local Government Area in the state of Nigeria.