RESEARCH TITLLE: STUDENTS’ NEEDS FOR, AND AWARENESS OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING SERVICES IN CASEOF WOLKITE UNIVERSITY.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to study the students need for and awareness of guidance and counseling services.Students need for awareness of guidance and counseling in university, The Can understand that all participants in the study were 35(50%) of respondents were 15-18 age group and 15(50%) group. The result of analysis statistical significance descriptive between awareness and students. This study adopts a descriptive survey design. Payne and Payne (2004) noted that descriptive survey design aims at portraying the status quo of the existing situation and gives an understanding of the existing phenomenon under study. The designed is therefore relevant for the study because it involve collecting data from the population in order to answer questions.The study was conducted in Gurage zone Wolkite University. This is to implement here in office of counseling service to operate the place of guidance and counseling service. The total Populations of this study was to be 1665 students. The participants was select by apply the above sampling technique.The study employed descriptive survey design to target 50 students, 50 participants of students need guidance and counseling and 1665 students from the health science college in general. Purposive sampling was used to select 35 female students and 15 male students of counseling offices while simple random sampling method was used to select 50 students. This yielded a total of 50 respondents.