User talk:EuroAcademics

Your addition/changes to List of universities in Belgium
Dear EuroAcademics, I refer to the changes you made to the List of universities in Belgium. I would like to raise some issues here about the things you added/changed.
 * "Belgium is a federal state in which the Flemish and French Communities have legal competency over subsidised higher education."
 * There are three Communities in Belgium and, yes, even the German Community has higher education.
 * These communities have full competency over all types of education, not only subsidised/public funded. Partly because of the discussions in the WTO, and especially GATS, the communities have introduced legislation to accept (or register) private higher education institutions and recognised their degrees.
 * I would therefore prefer to re-introduce "Belgium is a federal state where the communities have full legal competency over higher education."


 * "The list of Community-recognised universities, colleges, and institutes is published in ..."
 * I refer to the remark above. These publications also cover private higher education institutions. An example is Vesalius College: an independent, American style institution in Brussels. As a private entreprise, their degrees where not recognised. Since they got themselves registered as a higher education institution, they are part of the recognised higher education institutions.


 * "A few international institutions of higher education are also established in Belgium, by virtue of European accords, or of other national or international educational and legal rights."
 * Can you please point me towards these European accords? I am quite familiar with higher education issues and international law, including issues arising from within the following frameworks: WTO, UNESCO, OECD, Bologna Process and EU. I don't see any legal basis for establishing higher education institutions that would grant recognised degrees without any involvment of the competent authorities. I also refer to the discussion we are having about recognition at Talk:List of universities in Belgium.


 * You used "Colleges" as a translation for Hogescholen or Hautes Ecoles
 * In Belgium, the word college is used for certain types of secondary education institutions. The institutions we are referring to here call themselves University colleges to make clear that they are neither a college nor a university.
 * I would therefore prefer renaming these institutions to University colleges.--O-AoA-o 16:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)