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Ghent University Education Support Services
Ghent University’s training offer has evolved considerably over the years. This is due to a confluence of events, such as the implementation of Ghent University’s Quality Assurance Conduct 2.0, the covid-induced transition from on-campus to online and blended teaching, a newly founded collaboration network through the European Enlight Consortium and …
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Privacy and GDPR: Processing Personal Data
On 18 May 2018, the Executive Board approved the Generic Code of Conduct for the Processing of Personal Data and Confidential Information. In doing so, Ghent University endorsed its general data protection policy, emphasising safety, accuracy, care, and responsibility in handling personal data and confidential information. Our code of conduct, …
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Heterogeneous student groups: how do you deal with them?
Do you notice different levels of ability amongst students when you lecture or guide them? This education tip gives you several practical suggestions on how to respond to that heterogeneity.
What are 'heterogeneous student groups'?Different student characteristics can be the cause of a heterogeneous group. These …
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Some Inspirational Blueprints for a Blended Redesign of Your Course Unit
What is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is a schematic visualization of your course unit. It contains the following elements:
clusters within your course unit; intermediate goals of those clusters; teaching methods; assessment methods; feedback methods.A blueprint generates a clear overview …
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What minimum quality requirements should a work placement meet?
To ensure an efficient work placement policy, it is important for a programme to reflect sufficiently on the why, the how and the what of the work placement. In this educational tip, you can discover the minimum quality requirements for a work placement. The tip is based on the Ghent …
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How to Register a Work Placement?
Each work placement should be formally registered. This is necessary to correctly report about the work placement and to be able to localize students quickly in crisis situations. The faculties have various systems for registering a work placement:
The Faculty of Veterinary Sciences uses VESTA. The Faculty … Read more -
Demonstration: Visualisation in Class
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Demonstrating specific learning content often makes that content more clear.
What is a Demonstration?As a lecturer you can demonstrate a situation, a device, a test or other technique. It is an excellent opportunity to activate your students, e.g. by …
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Deferred Exam: When is a Student's Absence Legitimate?
What are legitimate reasons for a student to be absent from an exam and be entitled to a deferred exam? What are not legitimate reasons? You will find out in this Education Tip.
What are Legitimate Reasons of Absence from Exams?If a student is absent on the …
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Structural Contact with Minors during the Work Placement: Mandatory Check of the Criminal Record Certificate
The Flemish Government has decreed that as of 1 February 2023 any organisation offering activities which involve the education, psycho-medical-social assistance, youth counselling, child protection services, supervision and animation of minors must carry out a mandatory check of the criminal record certificate of certain new employees. This mandatory check …
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How to Stimulate Devoting Attention to Diversity Within Your Lecturing Team?
"We should not focus on best practices, but on best practitioners” (Prof. dr. Estela Mara Bensimon)
Do not underestimate the role of lecturers in students’ study career: in addition to being supervisors of the learning process, they set an example, sometimes even as role models …
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What are the Specific Points to Consider for Work Placements in the Global South?
For a work placement in the Global South, the same points of attention are of course relevant as for other work placements abroad. However, there are a number of specific points of attention as well, which can be found in this educational tip.
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Learning Analytics: What to Learn from Them as a Lecturer?
What are Learning Analytics?
The term Learning analytics refers to “the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts (1), for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning (2) and the environments in which it occurs”.
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Work Placements Abroad: Tackling Practicalities and Adminstration
The preparation time needed to tackle the administration and practicalities for a work placement abroad depends on the destination. Always be sure to check the FPS Foreign Affairs’ travel advice first. If the FPS has issued a negative travel advice, students cannot go abroad for a work placement at that …
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Transparency and Communication
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Transparency and Communication ' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
Identify in general terms:
the target audiences the faculty wishes to reach; the topics … Read more -
Assesment Reflection
The assesment reflection (part of UGI, section evaluation and testing) is a tool which was developed to make figures/data available to lecturers, programme committees and examination committees in a convenient way in order to reflect on evaluations. The assessment reflection tool contributes to the quality assurance concerning the assesment vision …
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Worried about a Student? Tips for Ghent University Staff
You have reason to believe that a student in your immediate surroundings is struggling and it has you worried. You want to help, but you do not really know how to proceed. Find out here how to recognize specific signs and how to respond.
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The 2026-2027 Education and Examination Code: What's New?
At its meeting on 13 May 2026, the Board of Governors approved the Education and Examination Code for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Discover the most notable changes and key additions here.
Doctorate (PhD)To avoid possible inconsistencies, we have removed various doctorate-specific definitions from the Education and …
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What is a Work Placement Manual?
The work placement manual is a documentation set or handbook that the study programme and the work placement supervisor compile for the student. The work placement manual describes:
the administrative steps to be taken before, during and after the work placement (in Dutch); the expectations the study … Read more -
Which administrative steps should be taken before the work placement?
At Ghent University, the administrative follow-up and organization of an work placement is coordinated by an work placement course holder at each faculty and / or study programme (in Dutch). They answer all (administrative) questions regarding the work placements and act as a point of contact for companies and organizations …
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Stakeholder Participation
At Ghent University, we expect every study programme to reflect on, and pursue an education policy that is an explicit implementation of our six strategic education objectives. One of these objectives is Stakeholder Participation.
We expect our programmes to set up processes and procedures to guarantee structural …
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