More autonomy for teachers …
“From now on, the evaluation throughout the year will be possible, since the idea is to delete the concept of ‘evaluation period’“Explains the Minister-President in charge of Higher Education, Elisabeth Degrysus (the committed).”The idea is to ensure that a teacher can, for example, organize an assessment at the end of October“, She adds. Concretely, this text therefore makes it possible to offer more autonomy and flexibility to establishments in terms of evaluation, when this was until then not authorized.
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… but also for students
This renewed autonomy will also positively impact students, assures the Minister-President Degrysus. “”This will allow them to receive more regular feedback on their level and success in the courses followed. They can self-assess more quickly and adapt their working method accordingly“, she argues.
Elisabeth Degrysus also poses another observation: being confronted earlier with evaluations would also allow students to check whether they have – or not – well oriented. “”It is somewhere also a way of supporting them towards success and supporting them. The challenge today is to make our students succeed. However, to do this, you must first work on their orientation“, she says.”All research shows that the more time you take to choose your studies, the more you succeed. Conversely, the less time you invest in your choice of studies or in your orientation, the less easier you are easier when you start your curriculum.“
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Reduce the failure rate and modify academic rhythms
Still in order to ensure better orientation of students, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation is currently working on the future “student journey” decree, the minister of which hopes for the establishment in 2026. Pursuing the objective of reducing the rate of failure in the higher education, this decree will try to ensure a better (re) orientation of students as well as support more suitable for each of them.
In parallel, a reflection around a modification of academic rhythms is also in progress. “”This is a question that has lived for a long time in the sector, and it is a more global reform that we will set up soon“, Lightens the Minister-President. Elisabeth Degrysus then recognize that it is”of a longer -term work, which is not yet mature for the moment. But the decree adopted yesterday is a step in this direction“, She says.
No question therefore for the moment of any overhaul of the calendar of higher education since the reform of academic rhythms is still in the reflection phase.
“With us, MCQs with negative points remain authorized: there is a reality principle, taking into account the number of students and financing”
