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Boost to guidance and counselling
under educational reforms
Ho, March 22, Ghanadot/GNA - Guidance and Counselling is to
receive a big boost under the educational reform programme
which commences later this year.
Mr Kwasi Hobenu, outgoing Volta Regional Director of the
Ghana Education Service (GES) said this on Thursday at an
in-service training for schools and district Guidance and
Counselling Officers drawn from the Volta Region in Ho.
He said under the reforms, adequate budgetary support would,
this time be given to the division to operate to give
educational and moral direction to school children.
Mr Hobenu said Guidance and Counselling was crucial for any
educational system, especially for Ghana at this time when
foreign cultures were negatively affecting the values of the
youth in the country.
He urged the officers to brace up for the challenge by
acquiring new skills so that when "a little child sits
before you to be counselled you are adequately equipped to
give him or her all that is needed to move on".
Mr Hobenu said Guidance and Counselling Officers must
reflect the multiple roles of educators, role models and
pace setters to inspire the confidence of their pupils and
students.
Mr Seloame Lotsu, Regional Coordinator regretted that some
officers were inactive and had not presented reports on
their activities.
He hoped that the situation in the past when the culture,
sports, girl-child and school health divisions of the GES
were adequately funded while the guidance and counselling
sections depended on the goodwill of holders of the purse
would be gone forever.
GNA
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