CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The heads of educational enterprises such as principals of secondary schools, vice chancellors of Universities, Rectors of the polytechnics have the responsibility of seeing to the smooth running of a school. The extent to which the principal succeeds in carrying out this responsibility depends on a number of factors and one of them has to do with the records that he is expected to keep. These records give a lot of information about the school that will enable him or her to take decisions and also assess the progress of the school. Different people such as the headmaster, the class teacher, and the local government education authority keep different records about the school. School records are official documents, books and files containing essential and crucial information on actions and events which are kept and preserved in the school offices for utilization and retrieval of information when needed (Durosaro, 2002). Such records are
Course material, Research Work from chapter 1- 5, Publishing, News, Entertainment, Sport, School Gist.