2008 - 2009
SECONDARY
E D U C AT I O N
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PUPILS number of pupils: full-time secondary education regular 436,146 special 18,548 total full-time: 454,694
part-time secondary education (1) part-time vocational secondary education part-time offshore fishing secondary education total part-time:
6,935 6,935
distribution over the provinces regular secondary education
special secondary education
part-time secondary education
150,000 2,632
120,000
5,051 1,507 1,223
90,000 716
4,120
3,871
857
2,237
60,000
3,269
30,000
120,973
0
72,891
Antwerp
Flemish Brabant en B.C.R.
83,359
96,925
61,998
West Flanders
East Flanders
Limburg
distribution over the educational networks
regular secondary education OGO 7.9%
special secondary education OGO 13.0%
GO 16.6%
VGO 75.5%
GO 23.1%
VGO 63.9%
distribution over education types in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th stage and modular education of regular full-time secondary education
GO
VGO ASO 38.4%
BSO 35.8% TSO 23.3%
KSO 1.3%
BSO 23.2%
OGO ASO 42.8%
TSO 32.7%
KSO 2.5%
(1) Since the school year 2008-2009 part-time offshore education is integrated in part-time secondary education.
ASO 11.4% BSO 45.4%
TSO 35.1% KSO 8.1%
INSTITUTIONS number of schools: full-time secondary education regular 953 special 112 total full-time: 1,065
part-time secondary education (1) (2) part-time vocational secondary education part-time offshore fishing secondary education total part-time:
48 0 48
distribution over the provinces regular secondary education
special secondary education
part-time secondary education
350 300
12 30
250
11 10 6
200
27
19
19
9
150 100
17 260
168
188
198
139
West Flanders
East Flanders
Limburg
50 0
Antwerp
Flemish Brabant en B.C.R.
distribution over the educational networks regular secondary education OGO 7.7%
GO 23.4%
VGO 68.9%
special secondary education OGO 15.2%
GO 17.9% VGO 67.0%
(1) The centres for part-time secondary education are always linked to a school for regular full-time secondary education, except four. (2) Since the school year 2008-2009 part-time offshore education is integrated in part-time secondary education.
B.C.R. stands for Brussels Capital Region GO stands for Community Education VGO stands for subsidised private-authority education OGO stands for subsidised public-authority education
ASO stands for general secondary education TSO stands for technical secondary education KSO stands for artistic secondary education BSO stands for vocational secondary education
S TA F F number of staff members: regular secondary education special secondary education total total secondary education: 79,007
men 27,433 2,657 30,090
women 44,101 4,816 48,917
total 71,534 7,473 79,007
staff members by gender and age 15,000
12,000
13,949
men women
12,364
7,827 7,098
11,916 10,654
9,381
9,000
6,609
6,825
6,000
55+
4,480
3,000 1,522
0
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
1,307
60+
age
staff expressed in full-time equivalents tenured posts in regular secondary education
OGO 9.4%
GO 17.4%
OGO 13.3%
VGO 73.2%
GO 27.1%
OGO 12.6%
regular secondary education professional bachelor at least master other regular secondary education
temporary posts in special secondary education GO 27.1%
VGO 60.3%
VGO 62.9%
managing and teaching staff other staff
GO 21.5%
VGO 65.2%
temporary posts in regular secondary education
OGO 10.0%
tenured posts in special secondary education
57,195 25,557 20,341 11,297 6,789
special secondary education 5,696
special secondary education 1,013
BUDGET Budget secondary education (policy credits 2009): 3,595,763 thousand euro. Share of secondary education in the overall education budget: 39.06%. Budget regular secondary education: 3,283,365 thousand euro of which 8.67% for operation, 2.87% for investment and 88.46% for salaries paid directly by the Education and Training policy area. Budget special secondary education: 304,256 thousand euro of which 4.89% for operation, 4.62% for investment and 90.49% for salaries paid directly by the Education and Training policy area. distribution over the educational networks
regular secondary education
special secondary education
Cross educational networks 0.6%
Cross educational networks 0.0%
GO 19.6%
GO 23.8% OGO 9.2%
VGO 70.7%
VGO 62.0%
OGO 14.2%
evolution of the educational expenditure per pupil (1)
(in euros)
special secondary education
regular secondary education
20,000 16,166.68
15,000
14,764.72
14.695,43
16,658.14
16,420.53
15,124.17
10,000 7,009.72
7,037.59
7,167.20
7,376.44
7,572.44
7,382.96
5,000
0
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
(1) The increase of the educational expenditures per pupil between 2008 and 2007, and the decrease of the educational expenditure per pupil between 2009 and 2008, can be explained by the pre-payment of the operation budget for 2009.
Secondary education is administered by four divisions jointly responsible for mainstream and special secondary education and parttime secondary education. Department of Education and Training – division Institutions and Pupils in Secondary Education and Adult Education This division is responsible for policy preparation, policy assessment and drawing up regulations on organisational and funding mechanisms of education institutions in mainstream and special secondary education and adult education (more specifically issues concerning staffing hours, school structures, funding, equal opportunities in education, rights of pupils, Regional Technological Centres etc,…). You can contact this division at secundaironderwijsbeleid@vlaanderen.be and volwassenenonderwijsbeleid@vlaanderen.be Agency for Educational Services - division Schools of Secondary Education and Part-time Education in the Arts This agency provides services to secondary schools and pupils as well as to Part-time Education in the Arts. This includes amongst other things: • different models of allocation of teaching staff and credits; • allocation of different types of funding; • checking pupil data; • follow-up of truancy problem. You can contact this agency at scholen.secundaironderwijs.agodi@vlaanderen.be and deeltijdskunstonderwijs.agodi@vlaanderen.be
Agency for Educational Services - division Staff of Secondary Education and Part-time Education in the Arts This agency ensures that staff members of mainstream and special secondary education as well as part-time education in the arts are paid correctly and on time. It manages personnel files containing financial and administrative information. This includes: • keeping up to date, following up on and processing of various systems of leave such as sick leave, career break, different systems of leave or absence in the context of part-time work or the performance of other tasks in the education sector,… • keeping up to date, following up on and processing of various systems of placing staff members on a redundancy list in education (due to illness, because of lack of jobs, for personal reasons, before retiring,...) The agency provides information and data to both internal and external customers. You can contact this agency at personeel.secundaironderwijs.agodi@vlaanderen.be and deeltijdskunstonderwijs.agodi@vlaanderen.be
Responsible editor: L. Van Buyten, Secretary General
Department of Education and Training – division Working conditions policy This division is responsible for the working conditions policy in the education sector (with the exception of higher education). In order to develop the most appropriate working conditions policy, this division works in close consultation with Flemish, federal and international organizations and interest groups, taking into account labour market evolutions, recent evolutions in the education sector as well as the views of policy makers. Evolutions in working conditions in other sectors are studied and if necessary incorporated into policy proposals. You can contact this division at personeelsbeleid.onderwijs@vlaanderen.be