Implementation of Guidance and Counseling Services in the Society Through FGD (Focus Group Discussion)

Abstract

This study aims to assist pupils who drop out of college for a range of factors, include financial hardship, educational history in the family, the COVID-19 pandemic, and others. The scope of this research is the community with a high dropout rate, as determined by statistics on the level of continuing studies in Duren Village 2021/2022. The descriptive qualitative approach is used during the research process, which includes surveys and interviews with the research subjects. Furthermore, these results are analyzed on a percentage level, to be used as data to provide guidance and counseling services in FGD (Focus Group Discussion). The results of surveys based on questionnaires and FGDs revealed a low interest in each indicator of interest within society. Hence, a departure from this result, the researchers recommended that it is crucial for guidance and counselling services to come into society by cooperating with the education authorities, universities, and education care societies.