Filip Rathé is the dean of KASK & Conservatorium.

He presides over the school of arts and is appointed by the Board of Directors of HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He is Chairman of the Board of the School of Arts and of the Exam Commissions. The main duties of the Dean include developing and formulating the policy vision. He bears responsibility for all the subjects that are taught, the faculty’s finances, and the teaching and administrative staff. He also ensures the proper functioning of the school of arts.

The school of arts council manages the faculty in accordance with stipulations in the decree. It determines which powers are granted to the dean.

chairman
Filip Rathé

secretary
Joke Vangheluwe
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staff representatives
Chokri Ben Chikha
Edwin Carels
Martine Clierieck
Jynse Cremers
Ilse Den Hond
Maarten Weyler
Sandra Van der Gucht

student representatives
Georgi Grozev
Ischa Mestdagh
Riet Van Lysebettens

representatives from the artistic and cultural field
Sven Grooten
Elke Decoker

members put forward by Ghent University
Sylvia Vanpeteghem
Franky Devos
Inge Vranken
Marjan Doom
Koenraad Jonckheere

For each training programme there is a training programme commission that is composed of teaching staff and students.

The training programme commission has the following tasks:

• describing the training programme profile
• establishing the final goals and final  competences
• determining the structure of the study programme with the different training programme elements
• establishing the course contents, the study load, het evaluation system and the types of examinations
• participating in the execution of internal quality control and supporting external quality control
• formulating proposals related to training assignments that are filled in by the departments

A departmental council is responsible for providing education, conducting and coordinating research, internal/external social and scientific services and, within the school of arts, also for developments in the practice of the arts. This council has an advisory function.

The department group unites teaching staff, academic staff and, where appropriate, administrative and technical staff within one or more related fields of study in a capacity group. A department group covers a field of knowledge or a coherent set of fields of knowledge that follows logically from the programmes organised by a faculty. Staff members can be assigned to only one department group across the university, in addition to any part-time assignment to a central management or department or faculty department.

Departmental councils function alongside programme committees. Whereas the programme committees are mainly concerned with content, the responsibilities of the departmental councils are mainly responsibility for personnel, infrastructure, research and money.

The administrative services are also called the deanery within KASK & Conservatorium. Most deanery staff members have their offices in the left wing of the Pauli building on the Bijloke campus.

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