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Renforcement en économie

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Bachelor's Studies in Management Assistant

The management assistant is able to put their skills or abilities into practice within all types of public or private, profit or non-profit, national or international organisations, whether they are small, medium-sized or large.

The particularity of our teaching is that it enables our students to receive, in addition to a general training, a more specific training either in economics or languages.

Our teachers do their best to train Bachelors to be successful in the organisation of activities, in the management of information and time, which are essential aspects of business management.

Reinforcement in economics

Some will prefer to specialise in business management, this is why we developed from the second year of bachelor optional courses enabling students to choose capacity-building courses in economics.

Internships

Given that our training is career-oriented, from the first year we focus on internships and connections with the professional world.

From the second year of studies, students will do trainee periods as observers in companies.

Academic periods and professional internships under the Erasmus+ and Erasmus Belgica mobility programmes can be done in second and third year. These enable students not only to put into practice the languages learnt but also to discover other professional worlds abroad.

These experiences are really enriching and open up prospects for secure and rewarding jobs.

The Bachelor in Management Assistant, option: languages and management is a multipurpose training.

The targeted skills centre on several key elements:

• The internal and external business communication
• The active and efficient collaboration to decisions
• The coordination of teams and services

Content of the training

The training is based on the following aspects:

- An in-depth knowledge of languages: Dutch, English, German or Spanish, including business correspondence in the three languages. General and specific bases are part of the learning, preparing the future management assistants to the various aspects of their profession. They learn through language labs, news articles and texts talking about their job and classroom conversations. Remediation is available for students who did not follow language courses during the last two years of secondary school.

French lessons aim to acquire a good spelling, a writing style which is adapted to the profession, a critical mind and an ability to summarize, the capacity to share opinions. These are completed with a business correspondence course.

- Courses of administration work and organisation give a comprehensive view of business realities: secretarial work, file classification, the use of modern office equipment, management, marketing, factoring, leasing, etc.

As already mentioned, these courses are completed with a long traineeship period (four months) in companies or administration offices, in Belgium or abroad, during the third year of studies.

- Economics, law and trade: these subjects (business economics, accounting, civil and commercial law, social and tax legislation, account analysis, statistics, ethics) make up a whole and enable to understand the main principles of modern economy at national and international levels.

- Office equipment: learning and command of the main word processing and office softwares (Windows XP, Word, Excell, Access, Powerpoint, etc.) as well as the use of the Internet.

- Internships: internships are organised in the second and third year of studies. They enable students to put into practice the knowledge and skills they acquired during their studies and to discover working life. This contact with business life or administrative environment leads them into the professional world.

Bridge programmes

List of bridge programmes leading to university studies as defined by the Decree of the French Community Government dated 30/06/2006 (as modified).

Exhaustive list of study programmes (6) to which Bachelors in Management Assistant can access after successfully passing a preparatory year (60 ECTS credits):

• Master in Labour Sciences
• Master in Population and Development Sciences
• Master in Cultural Management
• Master in Tourism Management and Sciences
• Master in Religious Sciences
• Master in Religious and Secular Studies