Stakeholders’ Perspectives on School Counselling Programme in Namibia
Stakeholders’ Perspectives on School Counselling Programme in Namibia

Summary/Abstract: The study investigated the Namibian School Counselling Programmefrom the perspectives of selected stakeholders in terms of objectives of theNamibian School Counselling Programme, the services they considered to becharacteristics of the programme, the resources available in the schools forthe implementation of the programme, the beneficiaries and effectiveness ofthe school counselling programme and the programme services recipients’satisfaction. The study employed mixed methods approach hence bothqualitative and quantitative data were collected. The population of the studyconsisted of two hundred and eighty eight (288) learners, one hundred andforty two (142) principals, sixty eight (68) teacher-counsellors and five (5)parents from schools in Ohangwena region. Questionnaire and interviews(in-depth individual one-on-one semi-structured interview and focus groupsdiscussions) were used to gather data. Quantitative data were analyzed byusing Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), while qualitative datawere analyzed by the use of themes and coding. The study found out thatteacher-counsellors had no counselling rooms to conduct individualcounselling, no separate budget for school counselling programme and thatfile cabinet and display boards were only available in very few school,inadequate school-counsellor and lack of information on school counsellingactivities.Therefore, it is recommended that the government allocate separate orspecial budget to school counselling programme; post, teacher-counsellors tothose schools where vacant posts are not yet filled and awareness raisingactivities on school counselling programme services be held regularly.

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