Inadequacy of Professional Counsellors in Nigerian Educational Institutions: Causes, Effects and way Forward
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Guidance and counselling is a service is one of the educational services designed for the realization of education objectives in schools. It is a service that provide support and deal with every aspects of students’ social, academic and career problems. There is no students in one time or the other that has never got a problem in the school. It is the duties of the trained Counsellors to provide these services to the students in the schools. It is unfortunate that most educational institutions in the country do not have the services of professional counsellors. This article discussed inadequacy of professional counsellors in Nigerian educational institutions: causes and the way forward. Secondary data were employed to provide empirical facts for the points raised in the paper. Inadequate funding, poor manpower planning, shortage of higher institutions offering Counselling programme and negative attitude of government towards development of counselling and guiding programme, poor motivation, political influence and Brain-drain were identified as the causes of shortage of professional counsellors in the Nigerian educational institutions. To address these problems, the government should formulate and come up with strategic plan on manpower development for educational sector which will specifically address the guidance and counselling programme etc.
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Counsellors Education, Guidance, Institutions