On October 17, 2019 the 10th General Assembly of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, ENQA took place in Yerevan, Armenia. The National Centre for Public Accreditation was awarded the status of a full member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, ENQA for 5 years till 2024.

On October 14, 2019 the expert meeting «Analysis of National and International Systems of State Accreditation of Educational Activities – Possible Improvement Mechanisms» was held in the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation.

On October 2, 2019 the Agency for Strategic Initiatives «Tochka Kipeniia» (Moscow) at Higher School of Economics together with the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science held the seminar «New Model of State Control (Supervision) in Education under the Mechanism of a «Regulatory Guillotine».

This year the 20th anniversary of the Bologna process will be celebrated by a series of international conferences. In early May the first one of them was held – annual conference of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. The conference «Rankings: A Challenge to Higher Education?» took place at the University of Bologna, the oldest university in Europe. 155 representatives of rating and accreditation agencies, leading universities and mass media participated in the event.