Influence Of Student Support Services On Students’ Academic Performance
[A CASE STUDY OF COLLEGE OF EDUCATION IKERE EKITI, EKITI STATE]

The input of student support services include guidance and counseling services, health services, transportation services, provision of hostel accommodation, provision of water services and so on. Meanwhile the result of input favourably or unfavourably determines the outcome of  students’ academic performances, socially or anti-socially as the case may be, which is the output.  If the students  performances in their studies are poor, it is traced back to services provider and the question whether the service provided is commiserating with the need of the users.
Therefore the performance of the students is known as response to the available student support services provided by College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, which also returns back to the school through feedback mechanism as shown in the diagram above.
Appraisal of the Literature Review
    The literature reviewed shows that students support services are purely non-instructional which are intended to complement the instructional activities in the institutions. Adequate provision of student support services would make students to perform in a desirable manner while inadequate or poor students support services might make them to perform in an undesirable way. 
    The reviewed literature also shows that the objectives of student support services include:
Providing the students with environment that is physically, intellectually and morally conducive for learning throughout their staying on the campus and  assisting them to develop fully their potentials through effective and efficient use of the available resources in the institutions.
    The reviewed literature take student support services to include, psychological services, guidance and counselling, healthcare, social services, welfare services and these services are vital to the effective functioning of any higher institution.