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History of Education in Belgium. In the past there were conflicts between state schools and Catholic schools, and disputes regarding whether the latter should be funded by the government (see first and second School Wars). The 1958 School Pact was an agreement by the three large political parties to end these conflicts. The 1981 state reform ...
- Preschool Education in Belgium
Preschool Education in Belgium Free pre-primary schooling...
- Higher Education
For students looking to pursue a post-secondary education....
- Quality of Education in Belgium
The United Nations Education Index, which is measured by the...
- Secondary Education
Secondary education consists of three cycles (Dutch: graden;...
- Primary School
Primary education is divided into three cycles (Dutch:...
- Preschool Education in Belgium
- Triumphalism and Apologetics
- Congolese Amnesia
- Renewed and Critical Attention For The Remote Colonial Past
- Historical Thinking About The Colonial Past from Multiple Perspectives
During the period in which the Congo was a Belgian colony, Congolese colonialism was addressed in the voluminous chapters on Belgian history. Patriotism and a national identity were then widely promoted, and the Congolese enterprise (contrary to the Rwandan and Burundian colonial pasts which remained largely invisible, also in historical culture) w...
The decolonisation of the Congo in 1960 was followed by chaos and dictatorship. This led to a post-colonial malaise in Belgian society. Simultaneously, due to the contested (ideologically-charged and communitarian) memory of the Second World War, the Belgian government decreased its engagement in memory politics, and the national (including the ‘ow...
Shortly after the formal handover, in 1989, of all educational from the Belgian to the regional level, the Flemish and Francophone governments issued standards: minimum objectives per subject. The history standards emphasised critical thinking skills rather than specific (factual) knowledge. New history textbooks continued to provide a critical acc...
Since 2019, new history standards are being gradually implemented in secondary school education in Flanders. In Francophone Belgium, an educational reform is in preparation. The Flemish history standards put key historical concepts such as colonialism, imperialism, decolonisation and neocolonialism explicitly to the fore. In order to transcend a Eu...
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Jun 9, 2022 · While the level of education in Belgium had already been falling before the pandemic, the results of several studies now show that Covid-19 has led to a further decline in the level of education and an increase in inequality between students. “Based on figures at the end of the 2020-2021 school year, we conclude that pupils in their last year ...
Education in. Belgian. colonies and former colonies. Leopold II, portrait bust by Ottavio Giovannozzi, 1846; in the Uffizi, Florence. As elsewhere—and perhaps more than elsewhere—the Catholic and Protestant missions played the prime role in the development of education in the Belgian Congo (now Congo [Kinshasa]; called Zaire from 1971 to ...
The employment rate among 25-34 year-olds with tertiary education is compartively high in Belgium. (89.7 %, rank 10/45 , 2022) Download Indicator. The employment rate among 55-64 year-olds with below upper secondary education is compartively low in Belgium. (35.5 %, rank 39/44 , 2022) Download Indicator.
Belgium is the second country to invite the OECD to apply this analytical framework and to comprehensively evaluate its responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of risk preparedness and crisis management, as well as of health, education, economic and fiscal affairs, and labour market and social policies. This summary document presents the ...
Gender inequalities in education and outcomes. In Belgium, 5.8% of students in lower secondary and 7.7% in upper secondary initial education repeated a grade in 2019, compared to 1.9% and 3% respectively on average across OECD countries. Boys are more likely to repeat a grade at lower secondary initial education than girls.
