2025

January 2025: Adult Education Contract 2035
Renamed Adult Education, social advancement education aims to align with the needs of learners, our society and socio-economic actors. 
Technological upheavals, ecological transition, increased demand for skills... To meet these challenges, the Skills for Life project: Des Compétences pour la Vie : Contrat 2035 de l’Enseignement pour Adultes(.pdf) (Contract 2035 for Adult Education) was created. 
It aims by 2035 to reposition Social Advancement Education, renamed Adult Education, as a well-known and recognized, quality, lifelong education aligned with the needs of learners, our society and socio-economic actors. 
Contract 2035 is based on a Vision 2035 which sets out the ambitions, namely: enable every adult to access diploma studies, teach skills that are long-term, provide continuing education, teach the prerequisites (French as a foreign language, basic skills, etc.) that make it possible to register for diploma training and make it sustainable to resume studies. 
To achieve these ambitions, the contract is based on nine projects, including quality, steering, administrative simplification, financing, guidance and strengthening partnerships with businesses and other educational institutions. 
With more than 135,000 students enrolled in 2023-2024 and 150 institutions, Adult Education is the largest adult education and training operator in French-speaking Belgium. 
It offers all adults the opportunity to return to education, to obtain a diploma, to reorient themselves professionally or to specialise. 
In its inventory, Contract 2035 highlights the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of Adult Education. It highlighted the quality of the teaching staff, which numbered between 2,500 and 2,800 full-time equivalents.  
Building on its strengths, Adult Education gives itself ten years to change.

2024

There have been no reforms to date in this area.

2023

Decree of 25th March 2023 : designation of gender contact persons in all higher education establishments as well as for Social advancement  education : entry into force at the beginning of the 2023/24 academic year

The PCGs of the various institutions work as a network. They share the information at their disposal, exchange best practices and those of which they are aware, and develop joint projects by pooling their resources. The network of PCGs forms the "Gender Contact Persons Conference". In addition, the Advisory Council on Women's Rights was created in 2023 as a result of the merger of the existing Women's Rights Plan Monitoring Committee and the « Alter Égales » Steering Committee. The Council aims to ensure that all French Community policies are developed and implemented with gender equality in mind. It aims to better support and structure the involvement of civil society in the implementation of policies carried out in the French Community, particularly with regard to the implementation of the Women's Rights Plan.