Transcript Student data in Flanders

Student data in Flanders
Beijing Seminar on digital student
depositories
April 8-9, 2013
Peter Parmentier
Agency for Higher Education, Adult Education and Study
Grants (AHOVOS)
Head of the division for Higher Education
[email protected]
Flanders
in Belgium
and Europe
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Dutch speaking northern part of Belgium
More than six million inhabitants
Capital: Brussels
Flanders = Flemish Region + Flemish Community
Flanders as
a federated
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Flemish Region: territorial issues
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Flemish Community: person-related issues
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1 Flemish Parliament and 1Flemish Government
Structure of Higher Education
Student population 2012-2013
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Professional bachelors: 102.586
Academic bachelors: 70.557
Masters: 42.754
(date: Friday 29th march 2013)
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5 universities
19 university colleges
Flemisch ministry of education
and training – a short IT history
Flemisch ministry of education
and training – a short IT history
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Payroll for 180.000+ members of staff
Early automation: large quantities of data, complex
algorithms
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Communication layer: Edison (EDI, currently web based)
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Current architecture: Mainframe, DB2, CA Gen
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(future developements: Unix, oracle, JAVA)
DHO: Database for Higher
Education
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Precursor: DTO 1999-2000: administrative database
Bologna proces: significant impact:
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Strategic Working group: defined goals:
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New structure
More flexible organisation (credit system)
New ways to finance
Support the implementation of new legislation
Integration with third parties (study grants, child support, …)
Source for policy information
Support for the enrollment proces
Service oriented architecture
2008-2009: start DHO
Structure of data exchange
Other in-house repositoris
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Database for primary education
Database for secondary education
Database for adult education
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New developements:
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DAVINCI: new database for adult education
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DISCIMUS: new database for mandatory education
(no longer on mainframe)
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LED: Flemish diploma register
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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
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Centralising information from diverse parties
Supporting the local labor market
Supporting the Flemish Qualification Structure
Unique source for the citizens
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Fraude
Duplicates
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Backup slides
Sample request: enrollement
DHO 3270 screenshot
Student portal