Volume II, No. 1, June - December 2022

The paper was written to emphasis the importance of record keeping in school under the universal basic education. The mode and methods used by teachers in keeping school records was look into in this paper. The paper classified school records into two parts; the administrative records kept by the head teachers and the class records kept by the class teachers. It showed that most of the school records that are kept by the head teachers and class teachers. were not kept appropriately It was therefore suggested that government, private agencies and other stakeholders involved in the educational programmes should constantly organize seminal for head teachers and teachers in order to update their knowledge of keeping school records.

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