GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING: A CONCERN FOR EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL COUNSELLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY NIGERIAN SCHOOLS

Ibrahim Bello¹, Abdulkadir Abdulkarim Olatunji² & Mohammed Mahmoud Baba³

¹Department of Education, Gombe State University, Gombe.

²Department of Educational Foundations, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.

³Department of Educational Foundations, AbubakarTafawaBalewa University, Bauchi. E-mail: bellogundumaibrahim@gmail.com, Kisfak23@gmail.com,mmahmoudbaba@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Guidance and counselling in Nigeria is characterized by a number of problems which have brought untold hardship to the quality of counsellors and in turn, quality of educational counselling.  Some of the problems include dearth in quality counsellors, imbalance in students to counsellor ratio, government attitude towards the plight of counsellors, would be counsellors lack of access to quality practicum. This exposition therefore focuses attention on counsellor education and counsellor quality, as well as conclusion and suggestions to enhance quality of guidance and counselling