Presenting Ephec

Our Institution of Higher Education EPHEC (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales) was founded in 1969 by professionals who wanted to offer practical education to junior line executives.

EPHEC continually interacts with the professional world. A close link to the world of business is a basic pedagogical principle in all the educational programmes we offer.

EPHEC prepares students for success in their future careers emphasizing the need for communication, service, an open mind and friendliness.

EPHEC is open to the world. It fully subscribes to the project of a European Area of Higher Education promoting students and staff mobility and aims at forming citizens who will become real actors in the global community.

EPHEC’s Orientation Committee is composed of personalities representing the professional and the academic world. Its mission is to give guidelines on pedagogical issues, to determine the academic level and to make sure the curriculum is oriented towards practical training quickly leading to a qualified job, and towards the development of employability skills within the scope of both full-time and adult education.

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Further Education Programme ephec@ephec.be

Key figures

Teaching is entrusted to associate lecturers occupying prominent positions in various companies and major sectors of activity (close to 40% of the staff) and to permanent lecturers often with previous business experience (more than 60% of the staff). Both groups cooperate to make sure their training is practical and quickly operational.

Teaching methods

Associating theory and practice in a close link to companies Students get practical experience from work placements. The first work placement lasts 3 weeks in the summer between the first and the second year for students in the Marketing and International Trade Departments. The second work placement lasts 14 weeks during the spring semester of the third year for students of all Bachelor degrees.

Throughout their studies students are encouraged to see the links between theory and practice thanks to practical assignments (sometimes commissioned by companies), on-site visits and presentations by expert guest lecturers. Students are requested to use foreign languages for many integrated activities or when working on joint projects with our partner schools.

Each student’s final thesis is devoted to the analysis of a concrete problem and aims at assessing the student’s global skills and maturity. The student will choose and develop a subject that might be of practical use to a company under the guidance of a lecturer-supervisor in the 3rd year.

The contents of courses are constantly adapted and the course offer is regularly modified to comply with the requirements of the labour market and the expectations of the business world.

Offering a student -friendly departemental organisation

EPHEC is organised in departments with 150 to 600 students. Each department has a common team: one head, one student coordinator, one secretary, and about 20 to 50 lecturers (more than half of them full-time in the department). Teaching is done in groups of 25 to 50 students according to the nature of the course (language classes and practical classes take place in smaller groups). Lectures in large auditoriums are restricted to a strict minimum. Each group is under the supervision of a head tutor and is allotted a classroom.

Attendance, assessment and examinations

Course attendance is compulsory. Interaction between lecturer and students and between students themselves is a key concept in our system of tuition. Students are requested to attend classes and to actively participate in class work. It is important to justify any absence with the lecturer and the student coordinator in order not to lose marks. Lecturers can organise their own assessment system and follow an individual planning provided it is presented in the course description in the ECTS guide.

Assessment can take various forms. This involves mainly continuous assessment and examinations. Continuous assessment comprises regular tests in class (generally announced and covering a well-determined subject), individual or group presentations, homework, projects and seminar work.

International

• Presenting Ephec
• Erasmus
• Erabel
• Nos partenaires
• Contacts
• Erasmus University Policy Statement

Réseaux sociaux

Actualités

Agenda

Mercredi 22 mai 2013

2ème soirée du cycles de conférences sur le E-commerce organisé par EPHEC Formation Continue

 Le samedi 22 juin 2013

Journée Portes Ouvertes sur notre implantation de l'Isat Schaerbeek (de 9h à 13h)