Student counselling at Utrecht University

The enormous increase in the number of students at Dutch universities in the sixties and seventies made it impossible for professors to deal with the many different questions students confronted them with. New professionals, student counsellors/psychologists and student advisers entered the universities. Three levels of counselling can be distinguished:

1)	counselling by professors (for problems linked with the course of study);
2)	counselling by student advisers in the faculty or department (for problems concerning study planning);
3)	counselling by student counsellors/psychologists (for other — e.g., personal problems).