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Study programme 2013-2014

Teaching and training





Decree of March 31st 2004 defining higher education, favoring its integration in the European framework of higher education and refinancing universities.
The admission requirements have to be met at the time of enrolment at the university.


General conditions

The teaching certificate of secondary education is accessible to any student who has a Master’s degree issued by the French Community, the Flemish Community or by a technical school. It is also accessible to any student who has a “licence” degree issued by the French Community or the Flemish Community.

To access the teaching certificate, a foreign degree or title will have to be acknowledged as being equivalent to the corresponding Masters’ degree by the French Community of Belgium


Language examination: knowledge of the French language

No student can be admitted to any one year of a Pedagogical Master’s degree if they have not passed an examination attesting to a sufficient knowledge of the French language.


In the event of the divergence between the different linguistic versions of the present conditions, the French version shall prevail


Specific Admission Requirements

Le programme est accessible à tout étudiant détenteur d'une licence ou d'un master :

  • licence en histoire
  • master (60 et 120) en histoire

L'étudiant qui souhaite s'inscrire à l'AESS devra être porteur d'un diplôme de la Communauté Française de Belgique (CFB) ; à défaut, il devra réussir l'examen de maîtrise de la langue française afin de démontrer qu'il a, dans sa communication orale et écrite, des compétences en langue française d'un niveau équivalent au niveau C1 du cadre européen commun de références pour les langues (pour plus de précisions : https://www.uclouvain.be/204103.html).

L'étudiant déjà détenteur d'un master 120 d'une finalité spécialisée ou approfondie qui souhaite obtenir une agrégation peut s'inscrire soit à ce programme d'agrégation isolée, soit au master à finalité didactique en histoire.

Spécific Admission and Enrolment Procedures for General Registation 

In addition to enrolling at UCL (Halles universitaires, Secrétariat des Étudiants), students are also required to enrol with the Faculty Department.
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Enrolment in intalments

The programmes for teacher training cover a year of study. However, providing that students follow a certain number of fixed prerequisites in the chronological organisation of the programme and the required alternation of certain training activities, they may spread the components of their programme over two academic years. In this case, enrolments are done on a deferred basis in line with the administrative regulations on enrolment and the length of deferral. All deferred enrolments require students to enrol for at least 15 credits during the first year and to take the examinations in one of the official examination sessions during the year.
The students are assessed on the first part of the examination at the end of this first year.


Accessible to adults

Some of the courses are held on a shift pattern. The multidisciplinary courses and seminars are offered in various sequences at different times.  

Accreditation of prior experience (valorisation de l'expérience professionnelle - VAE) in the field of teaching or training offers the possibility of receiving exemption from certain activities and from some of the teaching practice sessions.

The current shortage of teachers in various subjects (mainly science and Germanic languages) provides real and immediate opportunities for people wishing to retrain as teachers after another professional experience.