IT minister opens intl Educatio expo

Boosting opportunities for the Hungarian youth to obtain "marketable" qualifications is an important task for the government, the innovation and technology minister said on Thursday, opening the 20th Educatio international expo in Budapest. The prestige of Hungarian universities has increased significantly both domestically and internationally, Laszlo Palkovics said, noting that five of them had been ranked among the world's top 1,000 universities in 2019. The number of foreign students studying at Hungarian universities has also increased significantly thanks to the higher education reform launched in 2014, he said.