Education
12 companies file their annual accounts outside the standard format, for example in a sector format. Their figures and staff are missing from the employment, the medians and the largest employers.
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Activities
NACE 8559 · 4 activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other education85599 | 11,630 | 1,243 | 11 | 2,632 |
| Vocational training85592 | 3,008 | 248 | 6 | 4,874 |
| Socio-cultural adult education85593 | 994 | 63 | 0 | 585 |
| Education85591 | 113 | 3 | 0 | 320 |
Filed accounts
NACE 8559 · financial year 2025 · 2,385 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 44.1% | 45.4% | 45.8% | 45.6% | 46.3% | 46.5% |
| Median net result | €8,345 | €11,999 | €9,602 | €8,794 | €9,301 | €9,944 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 28-10-2026 | UQ
BE 0669.828.154 |
| 14-10-2026 | De Taaltoren
BE 0776.549.534 |
| 02-10-2026 | BWMA Association
BE 0537.808.679 |
| 25-09-2026 | La Bellegolaise
BE 1018.379.343 |
| 09-09-2026 | De Smet, Sylvie
BE 0648.557.638 · sole trader · Bruges |
| 21-08-2026 | DIGITAR
BE 0712.778.764 |
| 21-08-2026 | Chance 2 change
BE 0748.413.594 |
| 06-08-2026 | Marijke Cornelis
BE 0764.605.864 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 5,396 of 15,658 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
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Largest employers
NACE 8559 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Espace formation pmeUccle 230 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Vlerick Business SchoolGhent 164 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 Association pour le développement à Charleroi d'Actions collectives de Formation pour l'Université ouverteCharleroi 160 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 SYNTRA WESTBruges 142 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 SYNTRAPXLGenk 140 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 605 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 293
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 87
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 52
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 51
- 329 Socio-cultural sector 38
- 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 36
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 26
- 302 Hotels and catering 18
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- 329.03 Socio-cultural sector 9
- 330.04 Health institutions and services 8
- 201 Independent retail 6
- 314 Hairdressing and beauty care 5
- 330 Health institutions and services 5
- 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 5
- 124 Construction 3
- 152 Subsidised private schools 3
- 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 3
- 225 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 3
- 225.02 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 3
- 119 Food trade 2
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 85: Education
Bankruptcies per year in division 85
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 27 | 36 | 33 | 49 | 48 | 50 | 29 | 47 | 59 | 62 | 62 | 63 |
| Jobs lost | 35 | 50 | 61 | 102 | 81 | 122 | 55 | 150 | 119 | 107 | 111 | 108 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 85
741 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €63,500 | €44,500 to €83,400 | 375 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €64,800 | €54,000 to €78,300 | 311 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €74,400 | €55,200 to €82,700 | 49 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 85Measured nationally: Of 108,725 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 11 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
8 of the 11,081 companies in NACE division 85 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (3), France (2) and Spain (1). Together they employ 151 of the division's 27,953 FTE: 0.5%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €2.52bn awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €4.68bn paid
- Federal transfers 257.0m amount as published
- EU budget €1.21bn attributed share
- EU research €2.43bn EU contribution
Insights on Education
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €9,944 is below Belgium's €16,490. Liquidity of 1.94 is above Belgium's 1.66.
Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 1.1 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 77% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. 65.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Brussels holds 17.8% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 6.2 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 32.1% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 836 of the 8,411 FTE: 9.9%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 44.1% in financial year 2020 to 46.5% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €8,345 in financial year 2020 to €9,944 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 11-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 8559 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,472 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,781 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.