Post on 03-Jan-2016
Student data in Flanders
Peter Parmentier
Agency for Higher Education, Adult Education and Study Grants (AHOVOS)
Head of the division for Higher Education
peter.parmentier@ond.vlaanderen.be
Beijing Seminar on digital student depositories
April 8-9, 2013
• Dutch speaking northern part of Belgium • More than six million inhabitants• Capital: Brussels• Flanders = Flemish Region + Flemish Community
Flanders in Belgium and Europe
Flanders as a federated state
• Flemish Region: territorial issues
• Flemish Community: person-related issues
• 1 Flemish Parliament and 1Flemish Government
Student population 2012-2013
• Professional bachelors: 102.586• Academic bachelors: 70.557• Masters: 42.754
(date: Friday 29th march 2013)
–5 universities–19 university colleges
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 legislation2. Integration with third parties (study grants, child support, …)3. Source for policy information4. Support for the enrollment proces
• Service oriented architecture• 2008-2009: start DHO
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– …