Managing university records in the world of governance Available to Purchase

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and records management in the context of higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This is a qualitative research taking the form of a collective case study of six institutions.

That good records management can and does contribute to effective corporate governance and accountability. However, this relationship is not necessarily present in all circumstances.

That further corporatisation in higher education is likely to be supported by, and result in, better records management.

The paper proposes governance record keeping as an approach to managing records and documents in the world of governance, audit and risk.