Higher education system reform in Flanders

The most recent system reform in Flanders, which will be the focus of this chapter, was induced by the Bologna Process. As one of the signatories of the Bologna Declaration, Flanders started a reform that would transform the higher education system in many aspects. Again this was embodied in new legislation, starting in 2003 with the act on the structure of higher education that introduced the Bachelor- Master structure, and followed-up by acts relating to flexible higher education, the social position of students, teacher training, and funding, symbolically capped by introducing a unified codex of higher education legislation in 2013 applicable to both universities and colleges of higher education (or universities of applied sciences, UAS, as they are by now more commonly called). In the next paragraphs, we will first look into the dynamics of the reform ensuing from the implementation of Bologna (the stakeholders, the rationale behind the reform, and the process of reform), then we will give an overview of the current state of the implementation, and finally we will evaluate and discuss the reform and its results.

ISBN:978-90-04-40010-8

Jaar van publicatie:2019

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