Management of Students' Records

Tertiary education institutions whether public or private have as their primary objectives teaching learning and research. Thus they have the mandate to admit and train students. In the course of carrying out this mandate they generate records and information relating to their students for administrative and educational purposes. Records give the benchmark upon which present and future decisions and activities of organisations are predicated. The bane of the Nigerian higher educational system has over the years become loses or misplaced documents and butchered or incomplete files. This resulted from the fact that many Nigerian tertiary institutions do not take records management seriously. Therefore most of their essential records are badly stored and not secured despite the fact that educational records are very vital in the management of educational institutions. This situation does not only impair the smooth effective and efficient running of the schools but also grossly affects staff and students who often need such records for important purposes.