Records Management Issues and Challenges in Schools

• To create expertise and skilled manpower, qualified in the management of records and archives
• To produce professionals who are creative and proactive, competitive and high caliber in records and archives management
• To plan, provide and apply effectively academic courses that is of high quality and world class
• To ensure that the programme maintain the professional status continuously by the public and private sectors
• To create the centre of excellence and expertise in the records and archive management.

COURSE CONTENT

• Definitions of basic records management terms, such as record, records management, and records retention schedule
• Fiscal and legal benefits of a strong University Records Management and Archives Program
• The roles of individuals who participate in the University’s Records Management and Archives Program
• Definitions of key records management terms such as record, non-record, vital record, record copy, retention, disposition, records inventory, certificate of destruction, discovery, statute of limitations, and suspension of disposition
• The records life-cycle and responsibilities at each stage within the cycle
• The process of developing a records retention schedule in higher institutions
• Finding, reading, and complying with authorized records retention schedules
• Suspension of records disposition during an audit or legal action
• General records retention schedules
• Transferring records to the Archives
• Issues unique to your department’s records

FOR WHOM

Teachers, Lecturers, HOD, HOS, Educational planners, policy analysts, education statisticians and other professionals involved in educational planning at central or decentralized level.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.