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How can you set up entrepreneurial activities in your study programme?
Why are entrepreneurial activities relevant to your study programme?
Entrepreneurial activities are closely related to 21st-century skills such as creativity & innovation, problem-solving thinking and the capacity to adjust yourself to ever-changing circumstances. An entrepreneurial mindset prepares students for a future with new types of jobs, needs and issues.
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What to Expect of Students' Language Skills?
What language skills can you expect from your students, both for Dutch and other languages? How does the UGent assist them to improve their language skills and how can you help as a lecturer? And what can you demand with regards to the standard of their emails? This education tip …
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H5P: How to Build Interactive Learning Materials in Ufora
H5P is open source education technology for building interactive learning materials. It contains over 30 different content types for online learning pathways, including quizzes, presentations and online simulation exercises.
You can find this page now on the intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet-ict/SitePages/en/H5P.aspx
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Coherent Curriculum: Translating the Programme-Specific Competencies (Learning Outcomes)
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Ghent University Goes Blended
What is Blend@UGent? Definition
Blend@UGent is a well-considered and well-aligned mix of online and on-campus education. This means students actively work with learning contents, both individually and in interaction with each other and lecturers.
Ghent University redesigns its learning environment into a blend of active, evidence-based teaching, …
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How to Set Up a Feedback Interview
In a feedback interview, you provide feedback to your student(s) about their achievements or behaviour. But how do you go about that in a manner that is at once high-quality and effective? This Education Tip focuses on
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Generative AI in Ghent University Education: Impact and Approach
Latest update: 4 August 2026
Generative AI tools impact Ghent University education, the intended competencies/learning outcomes we want to foster, and the way we teach and assess. Learn how to adapt your teaching practice and how to use GenAI in the following Education Tip.
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Community Service Learning: Connecting Students and Society
If you want your students to contribute meaningfully to society, you might consider incorporating Community Service Learning (CSL) into your course unit.
Community Service Learning: What?Community Service Learning (CSL) is a learning-based teaching method that combines academic education with civic engagement in real-world environments, such as communities …
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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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Software for Education: Our policy and its Implications Explained.
Policy
Since the 2026-2027 academic year, our university has a framework for managing and funding all our educational software. This is the so-called Ghent University Citadel model (in the mould of SURF, the IT cooperative of Dutch education and research institutions). Each educational functionality 1 is integrated into this …
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What role do work placements have in the Ghent University vision on education and the educational monitor?
Qualitative work placements perfectly connect to the six strategic educational goals, which are the translation of the Ghent University vision on qualitative education. These educational goals, in turn, are further developed in the operational goals of the programme monitors. The tip is based on the Ghent University vision on work …
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Moderating Class Discussions
The discussion is a suitable teaching method for activating your students and for stimulating their oral and written language production, either during a class discussion or an online discussion. This Education Tip focuses on class discussions – how to initiate them, how to keep them going and moderate them, and …
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Teaching in a Hybrid Setting
Teaching in a Hybrid Setting: What?
Teaching in a hybrid setting means that part of the students physically attends the lecture on campus, and that another part simultaneously attends the lecture online. Students attending the lecture online can either choose to attend individually (from home or from their student …
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Education and Quality Assurance Updates
May 2026 Updates Exam period ahead: be prepared! Make High-Quality Assessments
Consult our tips on How to Achieve High-Quality Assessment: is my exam valid, reliable and organised transparently? Are you looking for practical tips on organising an exam? Think, for instance, of briefing your invigilators sufficiently …
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Student Talent Development in the Faculty
The following Education Tip gives inspiration to write the chapter on 'Student Talent Development' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
The faculty pursues a policy that is focused on maximising opportunities for all students. Indicate below the …
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Grade Conversion at Ghent University
What?
The way grades are awarded abroad (and at universities in the French Community) may differ from grading practices at Ghent University. A transparent conversion into Ghent University examination marks is therefore necessary. Ghent University is an international forerunner in terms of ECTS and aims to apply ECTS methodology …
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How to Incorporate a Policy on Diversity into Your Study Programme
Diversity in Your Study Programme: Relevance?
Today’s society is very diverse. Inevitably, this means that our university and our study programmes face a number of challenges. Society needs highly educated knowledge workers who know how to deal with the present diversity. It is important, therefore, that students learn to …
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Authentic Assessment of Communication Skills: Video Annotation as a Solution
This education tip is a report of a 2017 competitive educational innovation project
What?Authentic testing focuses on assessing students’ skills and insights in a situation that is (largely) in line with future professional practice. Authentic assessment expects students to demonstrate competences in a way in which professionals …
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Embedding the External Perspective in Study Programmes
By the new Quality Code for Higher Education (2019), Ghent University greatly values external parties' input on its study programmes' education policy and quality assurance. Each study programme is expected to take several actions, that allows them to embed a wide-ranging external perspective in a structured manner.
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Faculty Ombudspersons: Role and Responsibilities
Taking its cue from the Flemish Higher Education Codex (Art.II.279), Ghent University's Education and Examination Code sets out the role and responsibilities of the faculty ombudspersons in Article 79. This Education Tip explores Article 79 and contains more information on what to expect from a faculty ombudsperson.
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