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Guidance and Counseling

Notes (viii) Helping the students in their period of turmoil and confusion: Normally all the students undergo
a great deal to turmoil and searching to give meaning to their lives. They have their conflicts
and anxieties.
(ix) Checking wastage and stagnation: (India average pass percentage at the graduate and
post-graduate level is about 50 to 60).
(x) 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.
(xi) Eusuring 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.
(xii) 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.
(xiii) 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.

(xiv) Checking incidence of indiscipline: Majority of Indian students lack a sense of direction, a sense
of purpose and a sense of fulfilment.
(xv) 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.
• Educational Needs: Guidance is needed from educational point of view because of the following
reasons.
• Increase in the range of individual differences among school going children.
• The classes are over-crowded and there is a tremendous increase in the number of schools too.
The result is that we find much wider range of individual differences in the abilities, aspirations
and achievement of the pupils. Understanding of the differential needs and abilities of the
children is essential for modifying the school programme for the best possible unfoldment of
the student’s potentialities.
• Guidance as an Instrument for the Qualitative Improvement of Education: There has been a
rapid expansion of educational facilities to cater to the needs of increasing number of children
in recent years.
• Knowledge Explosion or the increase in the types of courses offered in the schools.
• Expanding Educational Objectives: Everyone talks today about the all round development of
the child through education.
• Solution of Educational Problems: We are facing various types of educational problems in the
schools such as universal and compulsory education, increased enrolment, high percentage of
failures and dropout, wastage and stagnation etc.
• Solving Discipline problems: Problem of discipline is becoming more and more acute in the
educational institutions.
• Vocational Needs: In our country natural resources are not being properly utilized because of
lack of guidance services. The following are the vocational needs for introducing guidance
programme in the schools : (i) Vocationalisation of Education and Guidance; (ii) Guidance as
an Instrument of National Development; (iii) Expanding Complexity of the World of Work;
(iv) Increasing Need for Man-power Planning and Utilization; (v) Occupational Awareness;
(vi) Changes in the Conditions of Industry and Labour; (vii) Changed Economic Pattern of the
Country.

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