PRESERVING THE PAST, PROTECTING THE FUTURE

LUZVIMINDA B. SAMPANG

The Department of Education (DepEd) underscored the importance of a strong administrative support in the delivery of quality, accessible, relevant, and liberating basic education to the Filipino learners.

Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones said that without a strong, efficient administrative system, nothing but nothing will move. She told this to some 230 administrative officers and officials from the central, regional, and schools division offices during the Clustered Conferences of DepEd Administrative Services, specifically for the Records Officers’group, held recently.

The series of conferences are aimed at strengthening networking, collaboration, and convergence among supply officers, cashiers, records officers, and general services employees that comprise the Department’s Administrative Service.

Briones highlighted the significant role of Records Officers and records management in carrying out DepEd’s programs, projects, policies, and reforms. Briones said that without an efficient system of records – not only efficient, but quick system of records management – all those dreams of policy, of quality, of access, of liberating (education), of anti-poverty cannot be attained because we have to have a sense of history, a sense of knowing what happened before, and what will happen in the future.

Briones also shared, as an example, the process of dealing with cases and complaints. We can only determine whether such complaints are valid or not, by looking at the record, she said.

After presenting DepEd’s accomplishments and milestones for the past two years, Briones likewise encouraged the Records Officers in attendance to feel proud, and to not leave their posts as they are crucial in the achievement of the Department’s goals and targets.

She also pointed out that the education officials who face the media and the public rely on the records that they provide.

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The author is Master Teacher I at Calzadang Bayu Elementary School