Further Education

KEY SECTORS

IHECS-FE is a further education school working in conjunction with the Institut Des Hautes Etudes Des Communications Sociales – IHECS of Brussels.

IHECS-FE offers further education programmes in four key sectors:

  • Media training and public speaking
    The IHECS has 50 years of experience in practical media training: radio, television, graphic arts, photography and multimedia.
  • European communication
    The IHECS takes advantage of its location in Brussels and its proximity to the European institutions and ‘village’, as well as its expertise in European communication.
  • Communication for companies, administrations and organisations
    The IHECS and its network of trainers and experts are experienced in corporate communication.
  • Further training of journalists
    Journalism is a specific and autonomous sector, clearly distinct from the communication professions. Journalists work according to the principles of freedom and independence that form the deontological and ethical bases of their profession

 

 

OBJECTIVES

IHECS-FE offers training, according to your professional communication objectives, to:

Learn to communicate effectively in your particular field

  • Add communication skills to your core activity.
  • Rapidly acquire the best communication grounding and techniques, which are necessary for your professional development.
  • Respond to the latest needs of your company, organisation or service.
  • Take on new responsibilities requiring communication skills.
  • Become an expert or effective consultant in your field.

Specialise

  • Specialise, retrain, update your knowledge, and be open to the latest scientific, professional and technical developments in professional communication.
  • Update your communication knowledge and skills, in line with new concepts, theories and practices.

Reorientate

  • Prepare rapidly and effectively for an active life in a field other than your own.
  • Stand back from your current professional activities.
  • Respond to a personal need to adapt.

Increase your employability

  • Improve your chances of being recruited.
  • Aim for promotion.
  • Prepare to take on new responsibilities.

These further education objectives have been set out in accordance with Article 20 of the French Community of Belgium’s Decree of 31 March 2004, defining higher education and promoting its integration in European higher education and the refinancing of universities (Moniteur belge of 18/06/2004). If successfully completed, this training results in the granting of credits – provided the training meets the same organisation, content and quality criteria as studies that lead to traditional academic qualifications.

 

 

ADDED VALUE

The training focuses on practical and professional aspects. These include, as required: case studies, the linking of theory to practice, visits to companies, sharing of experience, communication exercises, media training in our radio/television/photo/multimedia studios, work in a TV recording studio, training recorded on video to enable feedback, and so on. In short, theory is turned into practice.

Training is limited to small groups, to ensure interaction, exchange and teaching proximity.

Training that features under the heading ‘European Communication’ is delivered in French and English

Participants and trainers are invited to evaluate each training module.

The description of the content provided in the catalogue may be adapted according to participants’ specific needs, the latest developments in the sector concerned, or the trainers’ teaching needs.

All training is delivered with respect for the legal and ethical rules of the information, communication and media professions: press rights, image rights, public relations ethics, respect for privacy, commercial law, corporate law, and so on.

 

 

CERTIFICATION

Qualifications awarded at the conclusion of training

Depending on the type of training:

  • A certificateof attendance or successful completion awarded for short sessions or seminars, attesting to involvement or active participation.
  • A certificate. With this, the IHECS recognises the quality of training, the active participation of the beneficiary and the successful completion of an individual evaluation test (report, project, orientation study, exam, etc.). The certificate is accompanied by the awarding of credits (ECTS), recognised for academic courses in Belgium’s French Community and abroad, where necessary (Article 20 of the Decree of 31 March, 2004).
  • For complete curricula and under conditions outlined by the law: the title of master.

 

 

FLEXIBILITY

All modules are available to adults engaged in further education or those returning to study.

They are therefore devised to enable training time alongside professional, personal and family life:

  • Lessons in the evening or at weekends; ;
  • Lessons blocked together on certain days of the week;
  • Lessons alternating between the daytime and evenings;
  • Intensive training during the Spring or Summer holidays.

The modules, like the specific content of the programmes, can always be adapted to meet the needs of participants.