Lasha Margishvili, Director of the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement (NCEQE), participated in the International Conference on Medical Education — ECCES 2026, organized jointly by Ken Walker International University and Tbilisi State Medical University. 

Lasha Margishvili delivered a presentation titled "Prospects for the Development of the Higher Education Quality Assurance System.” The presentation examined the stages of development of Georgia’s higher education quality assurance system and outlined perspectives of its further improvement.

Givi Mikanadze, Minister of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia, and Mikheil Sarjveladze, Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, also took part in the conference. 

Conference presentations were also delivered by Emiola Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa, President-Elect of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME); Janusz Janczukowicz, President of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE); Harm Peters, President of the Association of Medical Schools in Europe (AMSE); as well as international and local experts, university professors, researchers, and students.