The impact of records management on school administration in secondary schools of Kumi district

Abstract

The topic of this study was: - "The Impact or Records Management on School Administration in Secondary schools of Kumi District" The problem the researcher identified, which precipitated the need to undertake this study, was the outcry triggered of by the stakeholders in Kumi district, over the quality of school administration, carried out by head teachers without basic knowledge, skills and training, in records management. In order to investigate into this problem, the researcher. selected the twenty schools for the study through a random sample. The schools were picked from among government aided, private, day, boarding, single sex and mixed secondary schools in Kumi district. The respondents were selected through purposive sampling, drawing five from each school, thus totaling one hundred altogether. Head teachers were identified as the key informants and were treated to a key informants self-administered 'questionnaire guide, which yielded the quantitative data required for the study.