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Unit 7: Organizing Guidance Services at School and College Level

(C) Three Year Degree Course III year and Post Graduate Class Notes
Orientation Programme
This programme may be taken up at the beginning and at the end of the session, when the
cunselling officer meets the parents by appointment. It contain the following activities :
1. Giving information regarding the courses/careers open to these students.
2. Giving information regarding the world of work.
3. Organizing field trips.
4. Arranging career conferences and exhibitions. These activites may be spread over during
the last term.
5. Arranging remedial programmes for the under-achievers.
6. Helping students in learning the skills which will help them in effective study, use of
library resources, etc.
7. Sending the student to the expert according to the problem. These activities may be taken
up when the need arises.
8. Guiding parents about the careers through P.T.As.

7.6 Development of University Employment Information

Foundation : In 1956, a study group on Educated Unemployed recommended the establishment
of the Bureaux in the universities to provide their aluminium with employment information and
career guidance. In 1957, the scheme for the setting up of the Bureaux was prepared by the
Directorate General of Employment and Training envisaging bureux to be primarily employment
counseling agencies which could also function as placement agencies for professional and highly
qualified persons and cate to the needs of all students of the universities whether still pursuing
studies or about to leave after completing their education.
Financial Assistance : At its meeting held on 5th May, 1971, the University Grants Commission
considered the question of giving financial assistance to universities for their University
Employment Information-cum-Advisory Bureaux and Career Advising Units in selected affiliated
colleges, U.G.C. to proved financial assistance up to the end of the Fourth Plan period to 41
bureaux and 75 career advising units whose proposals were approved by the U.G.C. Commission.
Recommendations : The Review Committee appointed by the University Grants Commission of
September 2, 1976, recommeded the following programmes :
(i) Association of Authorities : The Vice-Chancellor and other university authorities as well as
faculities and department should be actively associated with the activities of the bureau.
(ii) Projects Programme and Studies : The bureaux should initiate research projects progammes
and studies to be conducted in collabortion with various concerned departments of the
university/ colleges on local and regional basis for etimation of manpower requiremental
outlay in a district/region/state. The UGC should provide necessary financial assitance for
such programmes, and projects on priority basis. COSHIP colleges (Colleges of Humanities
and Social Sciences Improvement Programme.) could be fruitfully involved for data
collection and surveys.
(iii) Policies Procedures, and Guidelines : The DGE should continue to be responsible for framing
policies, procedures, general guide lines and norms for the functioning of the Guidance
Bureeaux.
(iv) National Apex Body : An apex body should be set up at the national level under the aegis
and guidance of the DGE, without prejudice to its autonomy to collect data regarding
manpower requirements. It may consist of the representatives of the DGE and UGC, Indian
Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) Indian Council of Medical Reserach (ICMR) NCERT,
National Laboratories, etc.

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