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Sub-Units of the Directorate

The six subunits are:

Academic Counselling
Vocational Guidance and Career Development Services
Psycho-social Counselling Services
Special Populations
Capacity and Human Development
Online Support Services

1. Academic Counselling

This subunit is in charge of coordinating the work and activities of the Instructional Facilitators and monitor and supervise matters pertaining to tutoring, Tutor-Marked Assignments, creating of Learning Cycles, matters pertaining to learning habits, and related issues, change of programmes, etc.

2. Vocational Guidance and Career Development Services

This subunit is charged with the responsibilities for helping learners make the needed choices, providing required information services, counselling and on careers related issues.

3. Psycho-social Counselling Services

This subunit deals with matters relating to individual and psycho-social issues, orientation, running groups, developmental matters, motivational groups, sensitization to success and all related matters.

4. Special Populations

This subunit is charged with handling matters relating to special populations including the challenged peoples, following up on their special study materials, linking up with other Units, Departments, Faculties and Directorates of the University to ensure that special arrangements are provided for their orientation, studies, and examinations.

5. Capacity and Human Development

This subunit handles matter pertaining to workshops, in-service and in-house training for Counsellors, enhancing their capacity and how to provide support for other support givers within the system, training Counsellors on the conduct of seminars, workshops, etc. for students, staff and the general public.

6. Online Support Services

This subunit handles online support services, training Counsellors to counsel online, facilitators to tutor online and students to use and benefit from online platforms and learning management system (LMS), helping students to maximise the benefits of online services etc. It coordinates migration of courses online and monitors the maintenance of online courses etc. as advised by the webmaster.

Components of the Directorate of Counselling Services and Career Development in NOUN

The Directorate of Counselling Services and Career Development is one of the non-academic Directorates in the National Open University of Nigeria. The Directorate is made up of seven Departments, namely:

Office of the Director
Study Centre Directors’ Affairs Unit
Student Counsellors’ Affairs Unit
Tutorial Facilitators’ Affairs Unit
Special Study Centres Coordinating Unit
Learners with Special Needs Unit
General Administration Unit.

The seven (7) components earlier enumerated above operate across the various Departments, Faculties, and Directorates in the University within the Headquarters and the Study Centres.