Student data in Flanders

Beijing Seminar on digital student depositories April 8-9, 2013

Peter Parmentier Agency for Higher Education, Adult Education and Study Grants (AHOVOS) Head of the division for Higher Education [email protected] Flanders in Belgium and Europe

• Dutch speaking northern part of Belgium

• More than six million inhabitants

• Capital: Brussels

• Flanders = Flemish Region + Flemish Community Flanders as a federated state

• Flemish Region: territorial issues

• Flemish Community: person-related issues

• 1 Flemish Parliament and 1Flemish Government Structure of Higher Education Student population 2012-2013

• Professional bachelors: 102.586

• Academic bachelors: 70.557

• Masters: 42.754 (date: Friday 29th march 2013)

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–19 university colleges Flemisch ministry of education and training – a short IT history Flemisch ministry of education and training – a short IT history

• Payroll for 180.000+ members of staff

• Early automation: large quantities of data, complex algorithms

• Communication layer: Edison (EDI, currently web based)

• Current architecture: Mainframe, DB2, CA Gen

• (future developements: Unix, oracle, JAVA)

DHO: Database for Higher Education

• Precursor: DTO 1999-2000: administrative database • Bologna proces: significant impact: – New structure – More flexible organisation (credit system) – New ways to finance

• Strategic Working group: defined goals: 1. Support the implementation of new legislation 2. Integration with third parties (study grants, child support, …) 3. Source for policy information 4. Support for the enrollment proces

• Service oriented architecture • 2008-2009: start DHO Structure of data exchange Other in-house repositoris

• Database for primary education • Database for secondary education • Database for adult education

• New developements: – DAVINCI: new database for adult education – DISCIMUS: new database for mandatory education (no longer on mainframe) LED: Flemish diploma register

• Secundary education: 2001-2002

• Higher Education: 1999-2000

• Third parties relating to the labor market

• Common taxonomy developed over the policy area’s education and work

LED: goals

• Centralising information from diverse parties

• Supporting the local labor market

• Supporting the Flemish Qualification Structure

• Unique source for the citizens

– Fraude

– Duplicates

– … Backup slides Sample request: enrollement DHO 3270 screenshot Student portal