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Guidance and Counseling

Notes services of a counseling kind —to check the huge wastage of student time and money and also
huge state expenditure on education. In this connection Miller has well said, “If 800 to $ 1200,
he would be earning his keep. Similar savings of graduate salaries foregone as a result of
failure or delay would benefit student as well as taxpayer.”
(10) Identifying and helping students in need of special help : Students who are the gifted, the
backward, the handicapped need special oportunities and arrangement to be provided in
colleges and universities. Guidance helps in identifying them and providing them with help
according to their requirement.

(11) Ensuring proper utilization of time spent outside the classrooms : Students in the colleges
and universities spend two to three times as many hours outside classrooms as on them. The
manner in which students spend their non-class hours clearly affects their success in achieving
both academic competence and pesonal development of all types. It is, therefore, essential that
institutions of higher learning provide positive guidance to students by instructing how they
can use those non—class house. The programme of guidance and counseling is requested to
meet this need.
(12) Tackling problems of student explosion : Today, the increased for higher education is
outstripping the growth of facilities in the seats of higher learning Unfortunate qualitative
changes in the nature of entire educative expriences are creating innumerable problems. The
students population is highly heterogeneous. Students from a variety of sections—highly
affluent and extremely poor, educated in convents and ordinary schools and colleges, rural
and urban areas, students from India and those from different foreign countries are attending
colleges and universities. Numerous problems crop up when students from a broad range of
families and educational and social backgrounds meet in classes for instruction, in hostels for
housing, in cafeterias and mess halls for eating. Guidance and counseling facilities should be
provided for helping them to tackle these diverse and complex problems.
(13) Fulfilling the deficiencies of home : A large number of students come to institutions of higher
learning from homes which have not taught them how to deal with their life problems.
This is due to various factors such as rapid industrialisation, political and social changes in the
occupational structure of the country and the growing complexiy of life there are greater
pressures and strains in the family. Again, there is gap in the range of sympathetic adults who
could be turned to in need, which was formerly filled by adult brothers and sisters, friendly
aunts and grand parents when communities and families were more intimate.
Most of the homes are not equipped to be the source of information concerning the qualifications
required for different kinds of courses or careers. Such information can come only from agencies
which make a full time job of supplying adequate and up-to-date materials. Most of the parents
are not trained for helping their grows up children to develop sound study techniques, and
obtain reliable information in matters of sex, etc. Seth (1962) collected a sample of students at
Allahabad University, whose parents were indicated as the most usual souce of help. Forty per
cent of student respondents said that they could not discuss their problems with their parents.
Professional guidance required to sort out all these problems.
(14) Checking incidence of indiscipline : Majority of Indian students lack a sense of direction, a
sense of purpose and a sense of fulfilment. They indulge in destruction activities leading to
social damage and loss. Adequate guidance and counseling facilities are required to help and
guide the youth to worthwhile channels and to make them realize the goal of optimum academic,
personal and social development.
(15) Need in developing economy : Guidance and counseling have a challenging role to play in every
developing economy, much more so if it is labour intensive. Selection of a job from a multitude of
alternatives, is a very important objective of guidance and counseling although it is not the
be—all and end—all of guidance and counseling. The core aim of these services is to help the

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