UC Leuven-Limburg

Hogeschool University of Applied Science

Profession-oriented higher education

Only bachelors and profession-orientedpractice-oriented
Research
Regional focus

Higher Education in Flanders

Profession-oriented higher education

Only bachelors and profession-oriented
Practice-oriented research
Regional focus
Universities of applied sciences

Academic higher education

Academic bachelors, masters and PhDs
Fundamental research
Universities

EQF 5

Associate degrees
Only at universities of applied sciences (as of 09/2019)

EQF 6

Academic and profession-oriented bachelors

EQF 7 & 8

Masters and PhDs
Only at universities

International Programmes (in English)

European Bachelor in Business Management (3y)
- Study in 3 European countries
Bachelor in Business Management (3y)
- Fully in Leuven
Postgraduate certificate International Educating Class (1y)
Advanced bachelor International Marketing (1y)
Advanced bachelor International Cooperation N-S (1y)
- Intern / Placement outside Europe

Child and Youth Care Work

As a result of intensive collaboration during recent years between UCLL ( University College Leuven Limburg in Belgium ) and ICBT Sri Lanka, we will soon start a new education program : Child and youth Care Work at ICBT . This new programme is professional-oriented and will offered at ICBT (Sri Lanka ) Campus !!!

The ambition of this new course : to integrate and coordinate new skills and insights in the domain of child and youth care. Therefore this program will focus on the multitude of problems which educators, field workers and care providers are faced with in everyday practice. This program will train them to be able to anticipate and deal with the needs and expectations of organisations, services and institutions. This is why this programme attaches great value to practical experience. The students strive to achieve the integration of theoretical concepts, acquired throughout the programme, with the work experience, gained through their internship.

A partnership : UCLL and ICBT

UC Leuven-Limburg (UCLL) is one of the major universities of applied sciences in Flanders Belgium with over 14,000 students and 9 campuses. The program Child and Youth Studies developed the recent years a lot of expertise in the field of educational, developmental, behaviour and socio-emotional problems of children and young people.

The beginning

It all started a few years ago with an exchange of students and some bilateral meetings. Following the contacts with different partners in Sri Lanka, the need for professionalization amongst staff and volunteers was detected. Therefore ICBT together with UCLL started exploring the possibilities for cooperation in Sri Lanka.
The basic idea was to develop a new educational program based on new insights, knowledge and methods , focusing on children and young people in vulnerable situations. This new educational program is developed with the support of several partners as well in the academic world and also in the field of the social profit and NGO-sector.

This programme takes up 30 credit points and includes next to 24 credit points more theoretical oriented modules also 6 credit points in-service training and a supervised internship.

At the end of each module, the learning process will be evaluated by an assessment. means of an evaluation outline. The successful students will receive a certificate, which enables the student -with the necessary documents – to find a job in the domain of child and youth care .

Support from Europe

Some students and some teachers will have the opportunity to travel to Belgium Europe to follow some course at UCLL ( organised by European funding K107 ) .

The start

The start is expected at the beginning of 2022. This new program will be measured by a quality framework in line with the European and Lankan principles of measuring the quality. This quality framework will be developed and directed by a new and independent steering committee.
Within a few years this program will be independently offerd at ICBT as part of their programs.