School of Arts Gent

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, University College Ghent
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional review, University College Ghent

Programme level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Industrial Sciences: Textile Technology (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Industriële wetenschappen: textieltechnologie
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Industrial Sciences: Textile Technology
    • Master of Science in de industriële wetenschappen: textieltechnologie
  • 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
Information Engineering Technology (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Industriële wetenschappen: informatica
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Science of Information Engineering Technology
    • Master of Science in de industriële wetenschappen: informatica
  • 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
Information Engineering Technology (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Industriële wetenschappen: informatica
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science
    • Bachelor of Science
  • 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
Intensive and Emergency Care (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Intensieve zorg en spoedgevallenzorg
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Intensive and Emergency Care
    • Bachelor in de intensieve zorg en spoedgevallenzorg
  • 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
Intensive and Emergency Care (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Intensieve zorg en spoedgevallenzorg
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Intensive and Emergency Care
    • Bachelor in de intensieve zorg en spoedgevallenzorg
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Interior Design (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • interieurvormgeving
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Interior Design
    • Bachelor in de interieurvormgeving
  • 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
International Business Magagement (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Internationaal bedrijfsmanagement
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Bachelor
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
International Business Magagement (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • internationaal bedrijfsmanagement
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of International Business Magagement
    • Bachelor in het internationaal bedrijfsmanagement
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Landscape and Garden Architecture (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Landscape and Garden Architecture
    • Bachelor in de landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Landscape Development (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • landschapsontwikkeling
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Landscape Development
    • Bachelor in de landschapsontwikkeling
  • 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
Legal Administrative Support (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Juridisch-administratieve ondersteuning
  • Qualification/award
    • Associate Degree of Legal Administrative Support
    • Gegradueerde in de juridisch-administratieve ondersteuning
  • Level
    short cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Marketing and Communication Support (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • marketing- en de communicatiesupport
  • Qualification/award
    • Gegradueerde of Marketing and Communication Support
    • Gegradueerde in de marketing- en de communicatiesupport
  • 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
Music (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Muziek
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Music
    • Master of Arts in de muziek
  • 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
Music (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Muziek
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Music
    • Master of Arts in de muziek
  • 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
Music (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Muziek
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Arts
    • Bachelor of Arts
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Music (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Muziek
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Arts
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Music (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Muziek
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Music & Performing Arts (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Muziek en podiumkunsten
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts of Music & Performing Arts
    • Master of Arts in de muziek en podiumkunsten
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Music & Performing Arts (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Muziek en podiumkunsten
  • 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
Nursing (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Verpleegkunde
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Bachelor
  • 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.