International College of Engineering and Management , General Foundation Program Quality Audit, Mar 2021
 
Prof Vallavaraj Athinarayanan
 
Prof. Vallavaraj has been working in higher education institutions since 1987, both in India and Oman. In 1999, he joined Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman as a faculty member in Electronic Engineering; he has been instrumental in developing and offering the Bachelor Honours degree programmes in Electronic, Computer, Telecommunications and Electrical Power Engineering at the college. In 2009, he became the Associate Dean – Undergraduate Studies, and since then has implemented a number of quality improvement procedures and policies at the college that have provided an enhanced learning experience for students. He took a lead role in obtaining the IET and CIOB accreditations for the programmes offered at the college. As the Chair of the Learning and Teaching Committee, he has drafted the strategies for enhancing Learning, Teaching and Assessment, with a focus on improving pedagogical skills, use of technology in learning and teaching, and innovative approaches in engineering education. In 2011, he was nominated by the MoHE, Oman to review Engineering programmes of Al-Sharqiya University and the University of Buraimi Oman. Prof. Vallavaraj has authored a number of technical books, and published several research papers.He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (USA) and a life-member of ISTE (India).
 
Ms Amal Saif Al Hinaai
 
Amal Al Hinaai has been Head of English Department at the College of Applied Sciences Nizwa since October 2015. She holds a Masters of Education in TESOL from Sydney University and a BEd from Ibri College of Applied Sciences.    Amal joined Nizwa College of Applied Sciences February 2011. She was assistant lecturer, then e-learning coordinator, after that the Foundation Program Coordinator before becoming the Head of the English Department. Amal has also been an active member of the Academic Advising Committee and Quality Assurance Committee at the College.  Amal has an extensive experience of teaching foundation and post foundation courses and has been involved in evaluating the foundation program for the Colleges of Applied Sciences.
 
Prof Pedro Saravia
 
Dr Pedro has a Diploma from the University of Coimbra, Portugal (1987) and PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT, USA (1993).  He has been Assistant (1993-2001), Associate (2001-2010) and Full (2010-) Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Coimbra; a Member of the Portuguese National Parliament (2009-2012 and 2012-2015); Pro-Rector of the University of Coimbra (2003-2004 and 2005-2006); Vice-Rector of the University of Coimbra (2007-2009) in charge of Quality, Innovation, Entrepreneurhsip and Technology Transfer; Currently he is the Dean of NOVA Information Management School of the NOVA University of Lisbon (2018); Advisor of the President of Portugal for Higher Education (2006-2009).He was the first recipient of the Feigenbaum Award (1998) by American Society for Quality and was an Associate (2010-2015) and then Full Member (2015-) of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ) where he is also the Chair of the Think Tank for Quality in Education (2016-). Vice-President of the Portuguese Association for Quality (APQ), the European Organization for Quality (EOQ) and IAQ. Dr Pedro conducts research activities in the fields of Process Systems Engineering, Data Analysis, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Quality Management, with several books and papers published.  He has also been collaborating with OECD and the European Commission in the development and application of a self-assessment platform for evaluating the innovation and entrepreneurial environments and initiatives carried out by Higher Education Institutions (HEInnovate), as well as with OECD in the country reviews it is conducting on how entrepreneurial are higher education systems and their institutions.  He has participated in several projects regarding Quality Management, Excellence Models, Quality in Education and Quality in Higher Education, both in Portugal and abroad (e.g. Poland, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia). 
 
Ms. Rammi Mokha
 
Rammi Mokha joined Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF) as the Assistant Manager in the Quality Assurance Dept. since 2013. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is a certified ISO 9001:2008 Lead Auditor. She is currently registered with the Chartered Management Institute CMI- L7. Prior to joining BIBF, Rammi has held various management positions at major higher education institutions in the region as the Head of Admissions and Marketing, Registrar, Head of Admissions and Registration, including Manager Internal Audit developing and providing leadership direction on institute-wide policies, procedures and standards for all aspects of quality assurance and enhancement across academic and student administration. At BIBF, she is involved in developing the institution’s framework for Quality Assurance and Accreditation. Rammi is also involved in the development and monitoring of managing internal aspects of the BIBF programme design & approval, APL, enrolment, annual monitoring & review, discipline, examination & certifications, national and international reviews, and validations including QQA, BQA-VRU, HEC accreditation and the national framework pilot project. She played a key role in BIBF`s QQA Review 2013- documentation control and event management, resulting in the judgment of the organization being an `Outstanding’ institution. In addition, Rammi holds the position of Management Representative (MR), in which capacity she ensures the compliance of the administrative sector operations to the Quality Management System (QMS) requirements (ISO 9001:2008 standard). She conducts regular internal audits for all the learning centres as part of the QMS requirements and is responsible for monitoring the irregularity reports. Rammi has developed the QMS Manual in addition to producing user-friendly guidance notes for all the digital processes of the Quality Assurance department, she is also responsible for the training of the BIBF staff in respect to QMS requirements and its implementation. and offering workshops and induction for all new joining staff.