ADMINISTRATIVE WORK IN SCHOOLS IS IMPORTANT, TOO

VANESSA V. ESPANO

Being in school administration is not a walk in the park, even if everyone thinks so. It is not just about pushing papers – it is more than that.

There is an importance in having a strong administrative support in the delivery of quality, accessible, relevant, and liberating basic education to the Filipino learners.

What can schools do without a strong, efficient administrative system?

The DepEd’s Administrative Service includes supply officers, cashiers, records officers, and general services employees. The Department therefore ensures that they are given a chance for professional development through a series of conferences aimed at strengthening networking, collaboration, and convergence among them.

The people behind the Administrative Service help in carrying out DepEd’s programs, projects, policies, and reforms.

In fact, without an efficient system among the people who comprise the Administrative Service, the Department’s dreams of policy, of quality, of access, of liberating (education), of anti-poverty, cannot be attained.

There should be an efficient system of records – not only efficient, but quick system of records management, for us to be able to have a sense of history, a sense of knowing what happened before, and what will happen in the future.

A good example is dealing with a complaint. The only way to determine whether such complaints are valid or not, by looking at the record and finding out what happened before, or if there were any developments surrounding the complaint. This is where an efficient record management comes in.

The members of DepEd’s Administrative Service play an important role in the achievement of the Department’s goals and targets.