The Factors Impacting The Successful Implementation Of Guidance And Counselling Services In Secondary Schools In The Ohangwena Region

ABSTRACT

This study assessed the guidance and counselling services in senior secondary

schools in Ohangwena region with the view to determine the teacher counsellors’

views on the factors impacting the implementation of guidance and counselling

services. Literature shows that guidance and counselling plays a vital role in

preventing educational, emotional, social, personal and other problems among

learners. It was therefore important to the researcher to determine teacher

counsellors’ views on factors impacting the successful implementation of guidance

and counseling in schools.

The study was quantitative in nature and a non-experimental design that involved a

survey was used. The population of the study comprised the teacher counsellors in all

the senior secondary schools in Ohangwena region. Data were collected using

questionnaires which were administered to a sample of twenty six (26) teacher

counsellors. Teacher counsellors were purposively sampled.The data was analysed

by use of descriptive statistics using The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

(SPSS).

The study revealed that teacher counsellors viewed inadequate training in SGC, high

teaching loads and time constraints, lack of support given to teacher counsellors and

lack of resources and facilities as some of the factors impacting the successful

implementation of SGC. The study also revealed that some biographical variables

(i.e. age, qualifications, teaching experience, counselling experience, training in

guidance and counselling, and type of training they received) significantly influenced

the way teacher counsellors viewed SGC.

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Furthermore, teacher counsellors would need to be supported by parents, teachers,

school principals, Inspectors of Education, Regional School Counsellors, and other

teacher counsellors, in order to improve SCG. Based on these findings, the researcher

recommended that the training of teacher counsellors in school guidance and

counselling be improved, reduced work load, better resources and facilities and for

teacher counsellors to be supported in order for guidance and counselling to be

successfully implemented in schools.