Supervision of Guidance and Counselling Programme in Secondary Schools in Nigeria: Problems and Way Forward
Abstract
Supervision of guidance and counselling programme is key to the realization of the objectives of the programme in the educational institutions. Supervision of counsellors would help to improve the counsellor’s teaching skills and enable him/her to be more effective in delivery of guidance and counselling services to the students. It is unfortunate that as important as supervision is to the development of guidance and counselling programme in the secondary school education that supervision of guidance and counselling programme have not been effective due to many problems. This paper is bent to discuss the problems hindering the effective supervision of guidance and counselling programme at the secondary schools level in Nigeria. This paper depends on secondary data collected from both print and online publications to establish the points raised in the presentation. Inadequate funding, shortage of supervisors with specialization on guidance and counselling, inadequate transportation, inadequate supervision materials, insecurity problem, inconsistent educational policies, political instability, inadequate infrastructural facilities and inadequate training of Supervisors were identified as problems hindering effective supervision of guidance and counselling programme in Nigeria secondary schools. To address these problems, the paper recommended that the budgetary allocation for education supervision should be increased and more professional supervisors in the area of guidance and counselling should be employed etc.
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