Urban Centers And Society Developments And Rural Functions And Special Education For The Deafs \ Specials

 University Of Ilorin....................
The programme Guidance and Counselling forms part of the very few degree programmes with which the University of Ilorin started her academic programmes in 1976. 
Since then programmes in Guidance and Counselling had continued to wax stronger at the University of Ilorin. When the University of Ilorin produced its first graduate in 1979, there were 12 grandaunts with specialization in Guidance and Counselling. Since then there had been grandaunts every year in B.Ed. Guidance and Counselling. The programme in Guidance and Counselling started as part of the Department of Educational Guidance and Management. As a result of greater demand and expansion during the1981/82 session. The Senate of the University on the recommendation of the Faculty of Education created a full-fledged Department of Guidance and Counselling. The University of Ilorin became at that time the second University to have a full-fledged department of Guidance and Counselling in the entire country. In 1980/81 Courses at the Postgraduate level i.e. M.Ed. became available in Guidance and Counselling. Since then the department’s graduate programme has steadily grown in strength. The department registered its first set of M.Phil/Ph.D. students in the 1984/85 session. The academic programmes of the department at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels have remained second to none in the entire country. The department has continued to contribute its own quota to the development of education as well as in meeting the dire, urgent and relevant needs in educational services in this country.