Record Keeping in Nigerian Educational Institutions: Issues and Significance

Abstract

In every organization or institution particularly in schools, it is always necessary to store records for future use. These should be stored not only for safe keeping but also that they can be easily located when needed. This is done by filling them properly. As could be seen in the schools, there are many educational new students, recruitment of teachers, time-table organization and so on. Also, these are school activities which need to be recorded and stored for retrieval when they are needed for any important validation or discussion or decision. This paper therefore, presents record keeping in Nigerian educational Institutions; it also discussed issues and significance of record keeping in educational institutions. Types of records as well as uses of academic record of a student were extensively reviewed. Challenges of record keeping in Nigerian Educational Institutions were highlighted and way forward were suggested.

Keywords: Book Keeping, Record Keeping, Educational Institutions, Store Records