ABSTRACT
This is a qualitative study that examined record keeping as one of the key areas of educational laws and regulations in Nigeria’s secondary education system. Education law requires every educational institution to keep and maintain statutory and non-statutory school records which serve as a database of the school. Record keeping is one of the most important administrative factors of educational institutions which the school administrator must practice. It is very difficult to plan and control any formal organization effectively without proper record-keeping. This study therefore examined the concept of record keeping, types of records and books mandated by educational laws for secondary schools to keep, the legal implications of keeping records in schools, problems of record keeping in schools, characteristics of a good record, and methods of proper record keeping. The paper adopted a literature review in the interpretive research paradigm to examine the concept of record keeping and different types of record keeping and their impact on the effective administration of schools. Secondary data were collected from online publications and print materials and arranged into themes for content analysis. The study ascertained that record keeping is one of the important factors for the effective administration of the educational system in Nigeria. It was recommended that the government should regularly organize different leadership training for school administrators to update their knowledge on the act of proper record keeping.
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