The Importance of Guidance and Counselling in Higher Educati.pdf (original) (raw)

The future of any nation depends on what it makes of its educational system. If the education sector is given its rightful place, it will take care of other sectors by providing this needed manpower. However, with the problem of downward fall of financial economy, higher education is facing a number of constraints, and there is the need for schools to be self-sustaining in a period of economic recession. This paper, among other things, discusses the economic situation of Nigeria, drawing on the importance of guidance in higher education during the period of economic recession. It further stresses the goals of guidance and counselling, and relates it to how it could be directed at assisting the country to utilise its potentials to the fullest by generating measures that could be embarked upon to assist schools to withstand the storm of harsh economic situation and equip the products of higher education for sustainable livelihood after graduation.