Flanders Business School

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

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional review, KU Leuven
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional review, KU Leuven

Programme level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Social Work and Welfare Studies (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sociaal werk
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science in Social Work and Welfare Studies
    • Master of Science in het sociaal werk
  • Level
    second 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
Society, Law and Religion (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Samenleving, recht en religie
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Society, Law and Religion
    • Master of Arts in samenleving, recht en religie
  • Level
    second 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
Sociology (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sociologie
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Sociology
    • Master of Science in de sociologie
  • Level
    second 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
Space Studies (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Space Studies
  • Level
    second 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
Space Studies (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Space Studies
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Space Studies (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science
  • Level
    second 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
Specialised Oral Health Care (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Specialistische mondzorg
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science in Specialised Oral Health Care
    • Master of Science in de specialistische mondzorg
  • Level
    second 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
Specialised Oral Health Care (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Specialistische mondzorg
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science in Specialised Oral Health Care
    • Master of Science in de specialistische mondzorg
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Specialised Oral Health Care (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • specialistische mondzorg
  • Qualification/award
    • Master in Specialised Oral Health Care
    • Master in de specialistische mondzorg
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Specialised Oral Health Care (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Specialistische mondzorg
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science
    • Master of Science
  • Level
    second 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
Specialist Medicine (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Specialistische geneeskunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine of Specialist Medicine
    • Master of Medicine in de specialistische geneeskunde
  • Level
    second 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
Specialist Medicine (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Specialistische geneeskunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine of Specialist Medicine
    • Master of Medicine in de specialistische geneeskunde
  • Level
    second 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
Specialist Medicine (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Specialistische geneeskunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine of Specialist Medicine
    • Master of Medicine in de specialistische geneeskunde
  • Level
    second 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
Specialist Medicine (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Specialistische geneeskunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine of Specialist Medicine
    • Master of Medicine in de specialistische geneeskunde
  • Level
    second 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
Specialist Medicine (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Specialistische geneeskunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine of Specialist Medicine
    • Master of Medicine in de specialistische geneeskunde
  • Level
    second 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
Specialist Medicine (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Specialistische geneeskunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine of Specialist Medicine
    • Master of Medicine in de specialistische geneeskunde
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Specialist Medicine (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Specialistische geneeskunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine
    • Master of Medicine
  • Level
    second 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
Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Logopedische en audiologische wetenschappen
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences
    • Bachelor of Science in de logopedische en audiologische wetenschappen
  • 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
Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Logopedische en audiologische wetenschappen
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences
    • Master of Science in de logopedische en audiologische wetenschappen
  • Level
    second 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
Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Logopedische en audiologische wetenschappen
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences
    • Master of Science in de logopedische en audiologische wetenschappen
  • Level
    second 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.