Assessing career guidance in reducing school dropout in secondary schools

Densly

Career guidance | Malawi

Vol:5; No:4; Dec-19 | ISSN: 2455-3921

Career guidance is one of the aspects that help and motivates students as it is of great importance it enhances quality of education in career value based on student’s interests, abilities and passion. However, it has been found to bemire by the factor, that it is led by teachers and at times not properly organized. Thus, teachers have been the main agents for career motivation talks in secondary. However, Malawi, a country in the sub Saharan region, experiences a number of school dropouts which mostly come due to lack of proper career guidance and motivation from concerned people. The research used a mixed method of which qualitative and quantitative method used to assess career guidance in schools as a way of reducing drop out. The study was done in Mangochi District and the research identified that career guidance has not yield proper and adequate attention, hence has not achieved its recommendation objective upon of which to the research endorse willing and motivated staff including parents, community, and other people who excelled in life to act as guides and also the government to recruit and give professional training course to staff concerning career guidance in reducing the rate of school dropout.

Dr.S.Densly, Senior Lecturer, Saint John The Baptist University, Malawi, Central Africa.