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Unit 10: Personal Guidance at College Level

(x) Arrange individual discussions with students and their parents for giving then educational Notes
and vocational information.
(xi) Arrange visits to places of work like Industries business establishments, offices, higher
educational institutions etc.
(xii) Personal guidance is a service to the individual students and indirectly the whole society.

Self Assessment
2. Fill in the blanks :
(i) The .......................... arranges time schedule in such a manner that all individual students
could benefit in personal guidance programme.
(ii) The .......................... recommended the title of Dean of student welfare for coordinating agent
on India colleges and university compuses.
(iii) The .......................... is the nerve centre of the guidance programme be it a university or a
colleges.
(iv) .......................... is needed to help in educational and vocational planning.

10.6 Summary

• Personal guidance assists the individual to adjust with psychological & social environment. It
is to solve the emotional & psychological problems Educational & vocational guidance also
can called personal guidance at college level.
• The nature of personal guidance at college level can be understood by you, if you keep in mind
that personal guidance does not exclude social life of the individual. The following are some
basic nature of personal guidance.
• It is concerned with social and civil activities.
• It deals with health and physical activities.
• It helps in worthy use of leisure time & character building activities.
• The purpose of personal guidance is to help the individual in his physical, emotional, social,
moral and spiritual development and adjustment. The purpose of personal guidance leads to
different activities to be organised for example for physical development, play activities of
children have to be properly organised, for emotional development children have to be provided
with opportunities for self expression.
• Need of Occupational Information is Personal Guidance Occupational Information is needed
to
(i) Make guidance informative - students need to know the jobs work processes, where the
training institutions are situated the content of training, the avenues of employment after
training, the average income, status of the work, future prospects etc.
(ii) Help in educational and vocational planning — Realistic information about jobs and the
trends can go a long way in helping in educational and vocational planning.

(iii) Help revise the old courses and develop the now ones – An analysis of the long range
occupational and industrial trends of present scenario.
• The needs and background of the students will determine the type and amount of information
collected. It should normally cover all those occupations which the students of a college or
university have been entering in the previous years and are likely to enter in future. It should
also cover information about the new openings which are rapidly coming up.

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