The purpose of this paper is to assess records management components, such as record scheduled, records appraisal, destroyed/disposed, retained, training of staff on the management of the student affairs records (SARs), provided access, the challenges associated with efficient management of SARs and strategies for effective management of SARs, to determine the extent the Student Affairs Department (SAD) complies with the University of Mpumalanga (UMP) records management policy.,This paper uses qualitative methodology of a triangulation of data collection and this included interviews, document analysis and observation.,The literature review, as well as the interview, revealed that findings on the UMP records management policy are multi-layered. A number of participants mentioned lack of records centre, records retention and appraisal of records, records management training and managing access to information as a challenge to the management of SARs.,The research was only limited to the UMP, Student Affairs Division, with a population of 15 staff members even though the findings can be applied to all the universities in South Africa.,SAD has a unique contribution to make to ensure that records created within their division are managed in terms of the UMP records management policy by ensuring that components such as records storage retention and appraisal of records management training and managing access to information are adhered to.,Failure to comply with the UMP records management policy by the Student Affairs Division will contribute to the loss of institutional memories, non-compliance with legislations such as Promotion of Access to Information Act 2000, National Archives and Records Services Act 46 of 1996 and the Protection of Personal Information Act No 4. Of 2013.,The research appears to be the first of its kind, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, to assess SARs at the UMP, South Africa.

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评估学生事务记录的管理

本文的目的是评估记录管理组件，例如记录预定，记录评估，销毁/处置，保留，对员工进行学生事务记录（SAR）管理的培训，提供的访问权限以及与有效管理相关的挑战SAR和有效管理SAR的策略，以确定学生事务部（SAD）符合姆普马兰加大学（UMP）记录管理政策的程度。本文采用定性方法对数据收集进行三角测量，其中包括访谈，文献分析和观察。文献综述以及访谈显示，UMP记录管理政策的发现是多层的。一些与会者提到缺乏记录中心，保留记录和评估记录，