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All you need to know about education in Belgium

A selection of websites from our database is provided below concerning the following topics:

• Springe zu: Overviews of the education system in Belgium
• Springe zu: Ministries responsible for education and science in Belgium
• Springe zu: Educational reports on and education statistics for Belgium

 You will find further websites and literature on Belgium here:

1. Websites on Belgium
2. Literature on Belgium  (German Education Research Portal)

Overviews of the education system in Belgium

Belgium
The site offers some short texts about the education system in Flanders (compulsory education, higher education, funding education, educational networks, school and academic year) and links to Flemish universities and colleges.

Belgium
This brief presentation of the education system in Belgium was taken from the "Wörterbuch der Pädagogik" (Dictionary of Pedagogy/ Edition 2000) by kind permission of the publishers Taschenbuch Verlag. After providing general information on the country an overview on the education system is given referring to the following areas: [...]

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The International Bureau of Education der UNESCO (IBE) provides country dossiers focussed on education. They provide information on statistics (from the World Data on Education – WDE), national education reports, documents [...]

Europe; Austria; Belgium; Cyprus, Republic of; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary [...]
The European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education provides national overviews of special needs education in numerous European countries. The information includes the following topics: legal system, financing, [...]

Belgium
This site provides structured information on education in Belgium in German language. The single chapters deal with school, higher education, marking systems as well as certificates, degrees and statistics.
"anabin" is an information database of the German Conference of Ministers of Education - Central Office for Foreign Education [...]

Belgium
This regional dossier, prepared by Mercator-Education the European Network for Regional or Minority Languages and Education, aims at providing concise descriptive information and basic educational statistics about minority language education, in this case the German language in education in Belgium. It comprises information on features [...]

Belgium
Eurydice is the "Network on education systems and policies in Europe". Amongst others, it provides very comprehensive country profiles on on education systems in Europe (formerly know as "Eurypedia"). All areas of education are covered from early childhood to adult education, as well as overarching issues. Each country participating in [...]

international; Australia; Austria; Belgium; China, People's Republic of; Chile; Czechia; Germany; Hungary; Ireland [...]
The review aims to bridge the gap between learning and jobs, by exploring how to make initial vocational education and training for young people respond better to labour market requirements. It therefore looks at initial VET [...]

Belgium
The OECD publishes their educational news from and on a specific country in this section. You will also find publication announcements like e.g. "Education at a Glance", and other studies and reports like "OECD Reviews of School Resources: Flemish Community of Belgium 2015". [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Belgium
English Wikipedia article about the education system in the Flemish Community / Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. You will find the following chapters:
1 Generally
2 Networks
3 Levels
3.1 Basic education
3.2 Secondary education
3.3 Higher education
4 [...]

Ministries responsible for education and science in Belgium

Belgium
The English website of the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training mainly links you to Eurypedia information. Furthermore, it has a link to English publications by the Ministry as well as to a website for foreign students interested in studying in Flanders.
The Dutch website provides general information about the respective [...]

Belgium
The Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, the renamed former French community of Belgium, represents the francophone Walloon part of Belgium. It has its own government and parliament with certain administrative competences in chosen departments, that means culture, sports, youth, health and especially education. On the website, the [...]

Educational reports on and education statistics for Belgium

Belgium; Bulgaria; Cyprus, Republic of; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Switzerland; Greece [...]
Eurydice (formerly Eurypedia and Eurybase) is a network of national units based in all countries of the Erasmus+ programme. [Its] task is to explain how education systems are organised in Europe and how they [...]

Egypt; Ethiopia; Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium [...]
The International Bureau of Education der UNESCO (IBE) provides country dossiers focussed on education. They provide information on statistics (from the World Data on Education – WDE), national education reports, documents [...]

Belgium
This site provides structured information on education in Belgium in German language. The single chapters deal with school, higher education, marking systems as well as certificates, degrees and statistics.
"anabin" is an information database of the German Conference of Ministers of Education - Central Office for Foreign Education [...]

international; Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Armenia; Australia [...]
This page provides a country list with fact sheets on the Human Development Index (HDI). The index focuses on three measurable dimensions of human development: health, education and standard of living. The fact sheets are [...]

Belgium
This regional dossier, prepared by Mercator-Education the European Network for Regional or Minority Languages and Education, aims at providing concise descriptive information and basic educational statistics about minority language education, in this case the German language in education in Belgium. It comprises information on features [...]

Belgium
Eurydice is the "Network on education systems and policies in Europe". Amongst others, it provides very comprehensive country profiles on on education systems in Europe (formerly know as "Eurypedia"). All areas of education are covered from early childhood to adult education, as well as overarching issues. Each country participating in [...]

Belgium
The English website of the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training mainly links you to Eurypedia information. Furthermore, it has a link to English publications by the Ministry as well as to a website for foreign students interested in studying in Flanders.
The Dutch website provides general information about the respective [...]

Belgium
The Directorate General Statistics and Economic Information (DGSEI) is in charge of the national (official) statistics in Belgium. The DGSEI is also responsible for the production of European statistics. Educational statistics can be found in the data collections on population and economy.

Belgium
Educational statistics of the statistical service of the Flemish government can be found under "Cijfers", table: "Onderwijs en vorming". Data for individual municipalities or regions can be found via "Lokale Statistieken".

Belgium
The Bildungsserver is the website of the department for teaching, education and trraining and employment of the ministry of the German-speaking community. The section "Zahlen und Fakten" offers information on the budget as well as figures on pupils and teachers.

Belgium
IWEPS offers statistics on pupils, students, advanced training and the educational level of the population.

Belgium
The OECD publishes their educational news from and on a specific country in this section. You will also find publication announcements like e.g. "Education at a Glance", and other studies and reports like "OECD Reviews of School Resources: Flemish Community of Belgium 2015". [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Belgium
The OECD provides some data from assessments or educational policy for Belgium that can be compared to other countries taking part in these assessments (Click on "Trend" or "Ranking" - Please note that this only functions automatically if you open the link in the same tab. Otherwise, please choose your country under "Highlighted [...]

Belgium
The database Planipolis provides official fulltext documents on educational policy and planning from UNESCO member states. For Belgium you can find documents starting in the year 2000 - for the French and the Flemish community, not for the German community. Planipolis is provided by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational [...]

Belgium
These figures are published annually by the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training. They present the current statistical data for all education sectors in Flanders, Belgium. Furthermore, you can find the publications of former years down to 2007-2008. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Belgium
These reports are published annually by the Flemish Government, Department of Economy, Science and Innovation. They provide an overview of the current status of Science, Technology an Innovation in Flanders. The chapters cover STI system and organisation, funding, human resources, activities, output and result of STI research. [...]

Belgium
The Federal Public Service Policy and Support of the Belgian federal administration provides education data in different languages. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Belgium
The indicators on this website provide information on Belgium’s progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations. Using three indicators per SDG, the Federal Planning Bureau assesses for Belgium the trends of indicators towards the SDGs. We link to the indicators for education. [Abstract: [...]

Belgium
The Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides the most recent basic data on education in Belgium. You will find information on the following issues:
* General information
* Education System
* Participation in education
* Progression and completion in education
* Education expenditures
* [...]

Belgium
"The ‘Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad’ or VLIR was established in 1976. VLIR represents the Flemish universities, serves as a platform to facilitate cooperation between the Flemish universities, and interacts with the Flemish government in all matters concerning higher education policy. Topics such as education and research [...]

Belgium
This OECD website provides information on the education system in Belgium, on education indicators and statistics. The interactive website can be used to compare Belgium's educational data with those of the average OECD data or with the data of other countries. You can create graphs, tables and others, which can be exported as a [...]