Student data in Flanders Peter Parmentier Agency for Higher Education, Adult Education and Study Grants (AHOVOS) Head of the division for Higher Education 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
Structure of Higher Education
Student population Professional bachelors: Academic bachelors: Masters: (date: Friday 29th march 2013) – 5 universities – 19 university colleges
Flemisch ministry of education and training – a short IT history
Payroll for 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 : 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 : 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: Higher Education: 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