Kempen University College Welcome 21 March 2007

World-Europe-Belgium-Flanders

What about Belgium, besides: Constitutional parliamentory monarchy Capital: Brussels Three regions: Flanders (northern part): Dutch speaking Wallon (southern part): French speaking Brussels (central part): bi-langual French-Dutch 10 million inhabitants on km 2 (300/km 2 ) heart of Europe chocolate beer

Higher Education in Flanders Universities (masters 4 or 5 years) Hogescholen (university colleges)  Academic Bachelors and Masters (4 years)  Professional Bachelors (3 years) Hogescholen are in a process of academisation: merging with the old-style universities

Higher education in Flanders Universities Hogescholen

Study Fields of Hogescholen in Flanders  Biotechnology; (bachelor – master)  Commercial sciences; (bachelor)  Health care; (bachelor)  Socio-educational and social work; (bachelor)  Teacher training; (bachelor)  Industrial sciences and technology; (bachelor master)  Architecture;  Applied linguistics;  Product development;  Audio-visual art;  Theatre & music studies.

KHK 4 Campuses in the Kempen area  Geel, Turnhout  Lier, Vorselaar 10 Departments 6,000 Students (3,600 in Geel)

 International programs (bilateral agreements with over 100 universities)  Socrates  Erasmus  Student exchange  Teacher exchange  Intensive programmes  Comenius  Grundtvig  Minerva  Leonardo  Mobility projects in many fields of study  Pilot projects  Tempus  Mobility projects  JEP  TIB

 International activities Short exchanges with partner institutions International week International Business Module International Class for Teacher Education International Class for Social Work International Workshop for Technical Sciences Knowledge sharing with Eastern European Countries (Hungary, Rumania, Kroatia): projects of the Flemish Community in the field of agriculture

 International diplomas  CCIP (Paris)  LCCI (London )  ZDaF (Goethe-Germany)  Cisco  Microsoft

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