Middle East College, General Foundation Program Quality Audit, Apr 2021
 
Dr. Baghdad Benstaali
 
Dr Baghdad Benstaali is currently a Quality Assurance Expert supporting Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) improve academic programs performance and enhance institutional effectiveness. He has an extensive academic and research experience learning, teaching, disseminating research findings and sharing best practices acquired in different parts of the world (Europe, Maghreb, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and USA). He occupied several managerial positions in HEIs and international organisms. He managed Tempus and Erasmus+ European programmes providing guidance and support to higher education grant holders of capacity building projects aiming to improve governance and management, develop quality assurance policies and procedures, apply competency-based programs, implement continuous improvement processes, assess students learning competencies and skills, and establish relationships with external partners. He provided the strategic direction on quality assurance, leadership for programs self-study and institutions evaluations to achieve accreditation. He conducted several assignments as Reviewer and Evaluator with international accreditation organisms/agencies. He is an Associate Professor of Physics and Analytical Instrumentation, an alumnus of the University of East Anglia (UK) and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Rouen in France.
 
Dr Nagham Al Azzawi
 
Dr Nagham Al Azzawi is an Assistant Professor at Rustaq College of Education, Oman. She is currently Head of the Students and Students` Support Services Quality Assurance Sub-committee at Rustaq College of Education where she supervises and contributes to the action plan to support the College`s largest category of stakeholders. Dr. Al Azzawi obtained her PhD degree from the University of Al Mustansirriya, Iraq, in 2004 followed by an IDELTM, Cambridge, 2013. She has presented in various national and regional conferences in Iraq, Oman, Lebanon, UAE and Turkey. She has published translations,  two contributions to curricula books, a number of papers and is now working on further projects.
 
Dr Rene Y. Paquibut
 
Dr. RENE Y. PAQUIBUT is currently the Head of Department of Business and Economics at Modern College of Business and Science (MCBS). He rejoined MCBS in June 2022 after four years in Al Ain University, Abu Dhabi, UAE where he was Deputy Director for QA & Institutional Research while also serving as a faculty member of its College of Business. There, he experienced working for the accreditation of the college by the UAE’s CAA and AACSB. Prior to his engagement in the UAE, he was in the Sultanate of Oman for seven years, where he was exposed to the college of technology system and then later to the private college system. Dr. Rene’s experience in quality assurance in education spans more than 20 years which began in the Philippines as an accreditor for PAASCU. In the Sultanate of Oman, he was introduced to the ISA of OAAA now OAAAQA as an external reviewer while serving MCBS in the capacity of Associate Dean for Quality Assurance. He has also served the Ministry of Higher Education now MOHERI as a reviewer of applications for new programs. He has published papers on quality assurance in education and generally in the field of management.