INTRODUCTION

Over the last ten years the Department of Educational Foundations (now Psychology in Education) has been producing graduates with the Bachelor of Education in Psychology (B.Ed [Psychology]) degree. The focus of this programme was to train teachers with specialisation in educational psychology who will teach their content subjects in the senior secondary schools or teach educational psychology in the teacher training colleges and take the additional responsibility of providing psychological services in the schools including counseling. In recent years an increasing number of clients for this programme have come from the security services, health service and banks among others. In addition to this, most of our regular graduates have served successfully in the other service sectors, companies and institutions. This makes it necessary to provide a programme that will service the needs of other sectors of the economy including the educational sector. In line with this rationale, the B.Sc (Psychology) programme offers a good opportunity to aspire to work in service institutions such as the banks, services and health service institutions.

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