Status Of Guidance And Counselling Services In Secondary Schools

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Guidance and counseling services is a very essential educational support service without which the aims of education cannot fully be realized. The guidance programme which provides students with information on educational, vocational and personal social issues in the early school years, has been found to be very effective in assisting to prevent such issues from occurring later in school years (Bergin, Miller, Bergin & Kock, 1990). Alutu (2006) assert that to facilitate learning, the instructor should consciously adopt instructional strategi…