The Administrative Impact of Guidance and Counselling Student’s Personnel Support Services on Higher Educational Institutions in Delta State in the Period of Economic Recession

Abstract

In times of economic recession, nations, institutions, organizations and individuals are affected with the economic, social, psychological and health impacts. Guidance and counselling become a very veritable administrative tool to ameliorate or eradicate such negative impacts. That is the reason this work into the administrative impact of guidance and counselling student’s personnel support services on higher education administration in Delta State in the period of economic recession. This research therefore used the descriptive correlational method of the ex-post facto design. The target population was made up of 6,627 academic and senior non-academic staff in the higher institutions in Delta State as at 2014 academic session. The stratified random sampling technique was used to sample 852 academic staff and 848 senior non-academic staff to make a total of 1,700 i.e. 20% of the total population. However, 772 academic staff and 776 senior non-academic staff questionnaires were returned. Thereby making 1,547 the final sample figure. The main instrument was a self-constructed questionnaire on the impact of guidance and counselling students personnel support services on higher education administration. Three research questions were raised and answered while the only hypothesis formulated was tested at 0.05 level of significance using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The findings from the study reveals that (eleven) 11 items as types of guidance and counselling students personnel support services available in higher educational institutions in Delta State while (twenty-four) 24 items were also revealed as the administrative impacts of guidance and counselling students support personnel services in the administration of higher educational institutions in Delta State. The null hypothesis tested indicated that there was a significant impact of guidance and counselling student personnel support services on the administration of higher education institutions in Delta State. Important and relevant recommendations were given such as that higher educational institutions held and other school/college administrators should be making use of guidance and counselling services to assist students’ compliances to institution’s rules and regulations so as to address and reduce psychological, social and educational problems which affects the administrator of the schools.

Keywords: Administration; Counselling; Guidance; Adjustment; Economic Recession.