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
Tropical Natural Resources Management (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Tropical Natural Resources Management
  • 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
Urban Design and Spatial Planning (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Stedenbouw en de ruimtelijke planning
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Urban Design and Spatial Planning
    • Master of Science in de stedenbouw en de ruimtelijke planning
  • 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
Urbanism and Strategic Planning (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Urbanism and Strategic Planning
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Urbanism, Landscape and Planning (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Urbanism, Landscape and Planning
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 7)
  • 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
Water Resources Engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Water Resources Engineering
  • 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
Welding Engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Welding engineering
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Welding Engineering
    • Master of Science in de welding engineering
  • 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
Welding Engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Welding engineering
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Welding Engineering
    • Master of Science in de welding engineering
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Welding Engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Welding engineering
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Welding Engineering
    • Master of Science in de welding engineering
  • 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
Western Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Westerse literatuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Western Literature
    • Master of Arts in de westerse literatuur
  • Level
    second 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: negative
Western Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Westerse literatuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Western Literature
    • Master of Arts in de westerse literatuur
  • 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
Western Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Westerse literatuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Western Literature
    • Master of Arts in de westerse literatuur
  • 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
Western Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Westerse literatuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Western Literature
    • Master of Arts in de westerse literatuur
  • Level
    second 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: negative
Western Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Westerse literatuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Western Literature
    • Master of Arts in de westerse literatuur
  • 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
Western Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Westerse literatuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Western Literature
    • Master of Arts in de westerse literatuur
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Western Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Westerse literatuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Western Literature
    • Master of Arts in de westerse literatuur
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Western Literature (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Westerse literatuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Western Literature
    • Master of Arts in de westerse literatuur
  • 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
World Religions (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Wereldreligies
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of World Religions
    • Master of Arts in de wereldreligies
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
World Religions (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Wereldreligies
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts
    • Master of Arts
  • 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
Youth Health Care (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Jeugdgezondheidszorg
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Medicine of Youth Health Care
    • Master of Medicine in de jeugdgezondheidszorg
  • 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.