1. 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

2. Dutch speaking northern part of Belgium More than six million inhabitants Capital: Brussels Flanders = Flemish Region + Flemish Community Flanders in Belgium and Europe

3. Flanders as a federated state Flemish Region: territorial issues Flemish Community: person-related issues 1 Flemish Parliament and 1Flemish Government

4. Structure of Higher Education

5. 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

6. Flemisch ministry of education and training – a short IT history

7. 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)

8. 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

9. Structure of data exchange

10. 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)

11. 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

12. LED: goals Centralising information from diverse parties Supporting the local labor market Supporting the Flemish Qualification Structure Unique source for the citizens – Fraude – Duplicates – …

13. Backup slides

14. Sample request: enrollement

15. DHO 3270 screenshot

16. Student portal