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Cross-border · Quality assurance and accreditation · Hungary

ENQA General Assembly elects Hungary's Péter Levente Lakatos as president, adds two board members

ENQA's General Assembly elected Péter Levente Lakatos of Hungary's MAB as president, added two new board members from Armenia and Germany, and confirmed several agencies' membership.

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Why it matters: ENQA's member quality assurance agencies now have a board president, Péter Levente Lakatos of Hungary's MAB, whose board mandate was renewed for a second three-year period.

Croatia's Agency for Science and Higher Education (AZVO) reported that elections to ENQA's board were among the key items at the association's General Assembly.

According to AZVO, Péter Levente Lakatos of MAB, Hungary, was elected ENQA president, and his board mandate was renewed for a second three-year period at the same time.

AZVO said two new members were elected to the board: Varduhi Gyulazyan of Armenia's ANQA and Ronny Heintze of Germany's AQAS.

AZVO also reported that the assembly confirmed the membership of several agencies.

Editor’s view

Richard Davies, Policy and Finance Editor

The assembly's outcome for ENQA's board is a president, Péter Levente Lakatos of Hungary's MAB, whose board mandate was renewed for a second three-year period, plus two newly elected members from Armenia's ANQA and Germany's AQAS.

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