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Student SAMENarie
06/11/2025

At the annual Student SAMENarie, organised in cooperation with the Flemish Student Union (VVS), we explored the current Flemish quality assurance system and the role of student participation within it in greater depth. From NVAO’s perspective, we consistently emphasise the role of students in the institutional ownership that higher education institutions exercise over the quality assurance of their programmes. Student testimonies provided a compelling illustration of how this operates in practice.

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SAMENarie 'Associate Degree in Basic Nursing’ 2025
24/10/2025

At the SAMENarie on Basic Nursing held in Brussels on 17 October 2025, we worked together with the associate degree programmes with a strong focus on knowledge sharing and mutual learning.

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NVAO event: System-wide Analysis on Student Participation in Flanders
10/10/2025

What if students could genuinely help shape policy—as partners rather than merely participants? How can we move together from consultation to impact?

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NVAO event: first BTS SynCo in Luxembourg
06/05/2025

On 6 May 2025, NVAO invited the coordinators of the Luxembourg BTS programmes the its first BTS SynCo event, organised in cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR).

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A Blueprint for Futureproof Higher Education
11/10/2024

Today, NVAO Flanders presented the results of the system-wide analysis "Futureproof Curricula" at a well-attended launch event. The overview report, "Futureproof Curricula: Building Blocks for Futureproof Higher Education", outlines the key steps needed to make higher education future-ready. This analysis was the result of an intensive year in which nine higher education institutions shared their knowledge and experiences to develop innovative teaching methods that respond to the rapidly changing labor market and society.

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Overview report: Bachelor of Nursing
16/02/2023

NVAO has confidence in the quality of the Bachelor's degree programmes in Nursing. This is evident from the overview report published by NVAO on the assessments of these programmes. However, this was not the case in 2015, when NVAO issued negative accreditation decisions for all these nursing programmes. What followed was a thorough reform of the curriculum and an extension of the duration of studies. NVAO’s overview report sketches a general picture of the assessment procedures and the substantive findings of the assessment panels. The report concludes with NVAO's insights and policy recommendations.

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