University Colleges Leuven-Limburg

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Institutional review and programme accreditation
    University colleges and universities require an institutional review and they have to organize the assessment of the quality of their programmes. Other higher education institutions require programme accreditation. For all new programmes an initial accreditation and a first accreditation by NVAO is mandatory. Only education providers included in the Flemish Higher Education Register can award legally recognised degrees. Programme accreditation is still required for the delivery of new programmes or for programmes with a limited period of accreditation (the ‘Codex Hoger Onderwijs’ 2013).
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Belgium (Flemish Community)

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional review
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional review, UC Limburg

Programme level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Shop Management (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Winkelmanagement
  • Qualification/award
    • Associate Degree in Shop Management
    • Gegradueerde in het winkelmanagement
  • Level
    short cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report does not have a validity period, but it is older than 6 years and thus considered part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Shop Management (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Winkelmanagement
  • Qualification/award
    • Associate Degree in Shop Management
    • Gegradueerde in het winkelmanagement
  • Level
    short cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Shop Management (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • winkelmanagement
  • Qualification/award
    • Gegradueerde in Shop Management
    • Gegradueerde in het winkelmanagement
  • Level
    short cycle (NQF 5)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social and Cultural Work (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sociaal-cultureel werk
  • Qualification/award
    • Associate Degree of Social and Cultural Work
    • Gegradueerde in het sociaal-cultureel werk
  • Level
    short cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social and Cultural Work (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • sociaal-cultureel werk
  • Qualification/award
    • Gegradueerde of Social and Cultural Work
    • Gegradueerde in het sociaal-cultureel werk
  • Level
    short cycle (NQF 5)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Educational Care Work (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Orthopedagogie
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Social Educational Care Work
    • Bachelor in de orthopedagogie
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Educational Care Work (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • orthopedagogie
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Social Educational Care Work
    • Bachelor in de orthopedagogie
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Educational Care Work (short cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Gegradueerde of Social Educational Care Work
  • Level
    short cycle (NQF 5)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Educational Care Work Management (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Orthopedagogisch management
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Social Educational Care Work Management
    • Bachelor in het orthopedagogisch management
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Educational Care Work Management (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • orthopedagogisch management
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Social Educational Care Work Management
    • Bachelor in het orthopedagogisch management
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Work (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sociaal werk
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Bachelor
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Work (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • sociaal werk
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Social Work
    • Bachelor in het sociaal werk
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Work and Social Care (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Maatschappelijk werk
  • Qualification/award
    • Associate Degree of Social Work and Social Care
    • Gegradueerde in het maatschappelijk werk
  • Level
    short cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Work and Social Care (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Maatschappelijk werk
  • Qualification/award
    • Associate Degree of Social Work and Social Care
    • Gegradueerde in het maatschappelijk werk
  • Level
    short cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Work and Trade Unions (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Syndicaal werk
  • Qualification/award
    • Associate Degree of Social Work and Trade Unions
    • Gegradueerde in het syndicaal werk
  • Level
    short cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Teacher Education: Pre-Primary Education (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Onderwijs: kleuteronderwijs
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Teacher Education: Pre-Primary Education
    • Bachelor in het onderwijs: kleuteronderwijs
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Teacher Education: Pre-Primary Education (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Onderwijs: kleuteronderwijs
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Bachelor
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Teacher Education: Pre-Primary Education (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Onderwijs: kleuteronderwijs
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Bachelor
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Teacher Education: Pre-Primary Education (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Onderwijs: kleuteronderwijs
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Bachelor
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Teacher Education: Primary Education (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Onderwijs: lager onderwijs
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Teacher Education: Primary Education
    • Bachelor in het onderwijs: lager onderwijs
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.