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National policy · Quality assurance and accreditation · Peru

SINEACE designates Quipas Bellizza and Valderrama Zapata as directors from 7 September 2026

A resolution of SINEACE, Peru's quality evaluation and accreditation system, ended two officials' designations and appointed them to lead two directorates of its Higher Council from 7 September 2026.

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Why it matters: The resolution places Mariella Margot Quipas Bellizza and Carlos Alberto Valderrama Zapata at the head of two SINEACE directorates, effective from 7 September 2026.

Resolution 000036-2026-COSUSINEACE/PE of SINEACE, Peru's National System for the Evaluation, Accreditation and Certification of Educational Quality, ended Mariella Margot Quipas Bellizza's designation as Director of Training, Selection and Supervision (DCSS Coneau) and Carlos Alberto Valderrama Zapata's designation as Head of the Office of Research, Development, Innovation and Relations, with 6 September 2026 as their final working day in those posts.

The same resolution appointed Quipas Bellizza as Director of the Directorate for Supervision of Educational Quality Improvement of SINEACE's Higher Council, with effect backdated to 7 September 2026.

Valderrama Zapata was appointed Director of the Directorate of Studies and Institutional Relations of the Higher Council, also with effect backdated to 7 September 2026.

The resolution orders its publication in the official gazette El Peruano, on the Peruvian state's gob.pe platform and on the standard transparency portal.

Editor’s view

Richard Davies, Policy and Finance Editor

Under the resolution, Quipas Bellizza heads SINEACE's directorate for supervising educational quality improvement and Valderrama Zapata its studies and institutional relations directorate, both with effect from 7 September 2026.

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