The college counselling unit is located at the left wing of the institution. It is made up of the head of the counselling clinic who is a professional guidance counsellor; oversees the smooth and effective running of the unit with two other professional guidance counsellors. The unit has a secretary who keeps the records of the center with a receptionist and a cleaner who keeps the office and environment clean. The center opens every working day from Sam- 4pm.
The services rendered include:
- Educational Services
- Study skills
- Career choice
- Evaluation of academic performance
- Study methods
- Truancy and others
- Orientation Services:
- It provides orientation services to new students when given admission into the college before their matriculation.
- It assists them to know information about the school.
- It helps them to adjust with the school situations and develop academic standards, personal qualities and help moral values
- It assists new students to develop social adjustment abilities
- Information Service:
- It helps students to take right decisions when they are faced with multifarious problems in the context of education life
- It motivates and stimulates the students to appraise their idea and ideologies
- It helps the students to be self-dependent, self-cautious and self-regulating
- It assists students to explore new possible areas to place themselves.
The Unit also provide information such as:
- Educational Information
- Occupational Information
- Personal Social Information
The center equally provides professional personal services like
- Relationship issues
- Marital problems
- Low self-esteem
- Addiction
- Stress
- Courtship
- Anger related problems
- Family related issues (poor relationship between parents and children.
- Rape/victimization
The counselling clinic unit of Niger State College renders services both within and outside clients of the college. IT’S OPEN TO ALL