Vocational training
Filed accounts
NACE 85592 · financial year 2025 · 956 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 44.7% | 45.0% | 45.6% | 45.8% | 45.6% | 47.2% |
| Median net result | €9,943 | €12,951 | €9,589 | €9,502 | €9,259 | €12,728 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 21-08-2026 | Chance 2 change
BE 0748.413.594 |
| 23-07-2026 | MIND IMPACT
BE 0803.957.279 |
| 02-04-2026 | Creative Inspirations
BE 0695.476.538 |
| 30-10-2025 | DELAVIE
BE 1012.458.482 |
| 30-07-2025 | Institut Européen de Médecine Naturelle
BE 0898.883.360 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 1,643 of 3,006 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Wallonia
- Flanders
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 85 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 85592 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Espace formation pmeUccle 230 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Association pour le développement à Charleroi d'Actions collectives de Formation pour l'Université ouverteCharleroi 160 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 SYNTRA WESTBruges 142 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 SYNTRAPXLGenk 140 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 SYNTRA PROVINCIES ANTWERPEN EN VLAAMS - BRABANTAntwerp 134 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 335 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 140
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 76
- 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 32
- 329 Socio-cultural sector 29
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 27
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 21
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 17
- 302 Hotels and catering 5
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- 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 5
- 329.03 Socio-cultural sector 4
- 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 2
- 227 Audiovisual sector 2
- 330.04 Health institutions and services 2
- 101 Mining 1
- 121 Cleaning 1
- 152 Subsidised private schools 1
- 201 Independent retail 1
- 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 1
- 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 1
- 219 Technical inspection and conformity assessment 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 85: Education
Related activities
7 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sports and recreation education85510 | 13,583 | 2,007 | 17 | 360 |
| Other education85599 | 11,629 | 1,243 | 11 | 2,632 |
| Cultural education85520 | 2,034 | 211 | 0 | 550 |
| Driving schools for cars and motorcycles85531 | 1,039 | 97 | 6 | 1,211 |
| Socio-cultural adult education85593 | 993 | 62 | 0 | 585 |
| Education85532 | 292 | 21 | 0 | 62 |
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| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education85591 | 113 | 3 | 0 | 320 |
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 |
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Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 85Measured nationally: Of 108,642 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 7 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 11,082 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 27,952 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
- Federal transfers 257.0m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €4.68bn paid
- EU budget €1.21bn attributed share
- EU research €2.43bn EU contribution
Insights on Vocational training
Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 12.2% is below Belgium's 15.9%. The median net result of €12,728 is below Belgium's €16,516. Liquidity of 1.97 is above Belgium's 1.66.
Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 2.0 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 74% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 22.5% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. This activity holds 8.5% of the registrations of Education.
Staff and filing. 31.4% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 805 of the 4,874 FTE: 16.5%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 44.7% in financial year 2020 to 47.2% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €9,943 in financial year 2020 to €12,728 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 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 85592 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 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 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.