Challenges Facing Counsellors in Nigerian Public Primary Schools and Way Forward


  • (1)  Lawal Adijat Ohunene    [email protected]  
            Uzbekistan

  • (2)  Bandekaji Chris Audu            bandekajichristopher@gmail.com  
            Uzbekistan

  • (3)  Ogunode Niyi Jacob    [email protected]  
            Uzbekistan

    (*) Corresponding Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47494/mesb.v17i.819

Keywords:

Challenges, Counselling, Guidance, Counsellors, Public, Schools

Abstract

This paper discussed the challenges facing Counsellors in Public Primary schools in Nigeria. The paper depends on primary and secondary data. The secondary data was sourced from print and online publication. The paper concludes that inadequate funding, lack of working tools, inadequate infrastructural facilities, insecurity problem, poor supervision, teaching of large classes, negatives attitude of students towards Counsellors, negative relationship between counselors and school administrators,poor motivation and poor capacity development of supervisors are the challenges facing Counsellors working in public primary schools in Nigeria. To address these challenges, the paper suggested the following: increase in the funding of guidance and counseling programme, provision of more working tools, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, provision of adequate security in public primary schools, improvement of supervision of guidance and counseling programme, employment of more trained counsellors, increment in the salaries of Counselors and ensure constant training and retraining programme for counselors.

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Published

2021-10-27

How to Cite

Ohunene, L. A. ., Audu, B. C. ., & Jacob, O. N. . (2021). Challenges Facing Counsellors in Nigerian Public Primary Schools and Way Forward. Middle European Scientific Bulletin, 17, 301-310. https://doi.org/10.47494/mesb.v17i.819

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