Guidance and counselling in colleges and universities /

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Educational and Occupational scene is fast changing here, there and everywhere. Curriculum and co-curriculum offerings have tremendously expanded during the past few years. Occupations, too, have increased manifold. No wonder, it is becoming extremely difficult for the educational generalists to prepare the youth for education, for occupation, for life in this rapidly changing world. Not only that quite a large number of students on our college and university campuses find themselves in the grip of personal adjustment problems. Loneliness and feelings of insecurity, conflict with peers and teachers; low academic achievements; bad company; sexual problems, etc. create emotional tensions and anxieties in the students. There is also a large percentage of first generation students as also students migrating from rural to urban society who had no proper guidance and training at the hands of their parents and relations as to how to conduct themselves in colleges and universities. All these factors necessitate that we take a hard, realistic look at our higher education to find out ways and means for canalising the energies of students in productive pursuits, arrest the downward trend of academic standards and ease emotional tensions and anxieties.