University Colleges Leuven-Limburg

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Institutional review and programme accreditation
    University colleges and universities require an institutional review and they have to organize the assessment of the quality of their programmes. Other higher education institutions require programme accreditation. For all new programmes an initial accreditation and a first accreditation by NVAO is mandatory. Only education providers included in the Flemish Higher Education Register can award legally recognised degrees. Programme accreditation is still required for the delivery of new programmes or for programmes with a limited period of accreditation (the ‘Codex Hoger Onderwijs’ 2013).
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Belgium (Flemish Community)

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional review
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional review, UC Limburg

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Teacher Education: Secondary Education (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Onderwijs: secundair onderwijs
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Bachelor
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Transports and Logistics (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Transport en de logistiek
  • Qualification/award
    • Associate Degree of Transports and Logistics
    • Gegradueerde in het transport en de logistiek
  • Level
    short cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Visual Arts (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Beeldende kunsten
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Arts of Visual Arts
    • Bachelor of Arts in de beeldende kunsten
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Visual Arts (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Beeldende kunsten
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Arts of Visual Arts
    • Bachelor of Arts in de beeldende kunsten
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Winkelmanagement (short cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Shop Management
  • Qualification/award
    • Gegradueerde winkelmanagement
    • Associate Degree Shop Management
  • Level
    short cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.