Ministry of Health Educational Institutes, Institutional Quality Audit, Apr 2013
 
Dr. Anne Martin
 

Anne Martin has had wide international experience in senior level positions the higher education sector, managing portfolios covering the development and delivery of university programs and policies, academic and institutional planning, organizational development and academic quality assurance. Her senior appointments include Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic) at Deakin University in Australia; University Dean for Academic Planning and Programs and interim Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs in the City University of New York System; Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of South Australia; and Head of the School of General Education at the South Australian Institute of Technology. Dr. Martin’s international consultancy service provides expert support to the higher education sector, including universities, private colleges, professional associations and government agencies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific and Gulf regions. She has advised governments in three countries on the development and implementation of institutional and government regulatory standards for higher education and has served on numerous institutional and government boards. Her involvement in quality and accreditation reviews is ongoing. She has served as a panel member and chair for the national accreditation authorities in Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Oman, Papua New Guinea and Saudi Arabia. To date, she has conducted over 40 institutional reviews and many dozen program accreditations. In 2010, she received the Australian Higher Education Quality Award in recognition of her services to the higher education sector.


 
Emeritus Professor Debbie Clayton
 
Debbie Clayton has worked in the University and Government sectors, and as a consultant and director of Clayton International, a private Education Consulting Company. Her consulting has a focus on quality assurance and accreditation systems as well as Transnational Education and she works with public and private institutions, as well as onshore and offshore governments. She is an international reviewer and external expert for the Oman Academic Accreditation Authority, the New Zealand Universities Academic Quality Agency, the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, the Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong, and Papua New Guinea’s Department of Higher Education Science and Technology. In Australia, she was an Australia Universities Quality Agency auditor and a member of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Establishment Taskforce. She is currently on the register of TEQSA’s external experts for onshore and offshore International Education, corporate governance, and third-party arrangements.  She is the Independent Chair of the Accreditation Committee for Queensland Prevocational Medical Accreditation which accredits prevocational medical intern programs for the State of Queensland to standards set by the Medical Board of Australia. 
 
Prof. Kevin McConkey
 
Professor Kevin McConkey is a Higher Education Consultant; Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; and Honorary Professor, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People`s Republic of China. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of GraduateSchool.com Pty Ltd, a company of the University of Newcastle. Professor McConkey is also Chair of the Council of Raffles College of Design and Commerce in Sydney.   Professor McConkey holds a BA (Hons) and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Queensland; he is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School.  He has held previous academic and visiting positions in the USA (University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, University of Arizona) and Canada (Concordia University) as well as academic positions in Australia (Macquarie University, University of New South Wales); he is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales. He is also an Honorary Professor at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai.   Professor McConkey has held various positions in professional and scientific societies, including: Vice-President, Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies; President, Australian Psychological Society; President, Australian Society of Hypnosis; and Chair, National Committee for Psychology, Australian Academy of Science.   He is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and the Australian Society of Hypnosis; he is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  Professor McConkey is an Honorary Auditor of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, and a member of the Higher Education Advisory Committee of the New South Wales Government. 
 
Prof Dr Maha Mohamed Adel
 
Dr. Maha is currently Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University. She is the consultant of Quality Assurance and Accreditation for the President of Alexandria University and member of Alexandria Faculty of Nursing Scientific Journal Board. Dr. Maha is the PI of Erasmus project to establish master degrees in medicine and nursing for hepato - pancreatic & biliary diseases and liver transplant  Dr. Maha also is the Former Dean Faculty of Nursing (August 2013-October 2019).  She was graduated 1980 and received her Doctorate and Master degrees from Alexandria University, Faculty of Nursing in Medical Surgical Nursing. Dr. Maha is an external reviewer at the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education (NAQAAE) in Egypt and in Oman and Saudi Arabia, Quality Assurance and accreditation project phase I and phase II (QAAP I and QAAP II. She was Manager of Quality Assurance Center, Pharos University in Alexandria. She reviewed more than fifty faculties of different specialties and was a consultant for quality assurance in higher education for different colleges in Alexandria. Maha is also a member of the technical committee for accreditation reports revision at NAQAAE She is also a member of the steering committee of Alexandria University Medical Council (AUMC) and the head of the education committee within the Council. Prior to this post, she was the executive manager for CIQAP project (Continuous Development Qualifying for Accreditation project), and manager of the Quality Assurance Unit of the Faculty of Nursing- Alexandria University till it was the first accredited faculty in Alexandria and the second all over the country. She trained faculty staff on quality in higher education and reviewing skills. She was the Academic Coordinator of the Internship Training Department at the Faculty of Nursing.   She is First aid trainer with CEDPA organization (USA), and Education Reform Project (ERP). She has published several books including Medical Surgical Nursing, Fundamental of  Nursing , and First Aid skills , and has various researches contributions to national and international scientific conferences as well as many publications in international peer-reviewed Medical and Nursing Journals.

 
Prof. Malcolm Cook
 
Malcolm Cook is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Exeter, UK. He has been an auditor for the UK Quality Assurance Agency and has worked as an international expert for a number of agencies in Europe: France, Ireland, Romania, Lithuania and Switzerland. Until recently he worked as a specialist evaluator working for the European University Association Institutional Evaluation Programme and served on the steering committee of the programme. He has taken part in evaluations in Italy, Spain and Morocco and the Ukraine.  He has also worked for the Irish Higher Education Authority as a specialist advisor on research funding and is currently working for the Irish Board that awards postgraduate grants in the humanities and social sciences. Professor Cook also acted as an external advisor for Heythrop College, University of London, UK and has in the past undertaken a review of teaching in the School of Advanced Study in London. He is a fluent French speaker. A former Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Exeter with responsibility for Quality Assurance, Learning and Teaching and European Affairs, he is the former  Chair of the Modern Humanities Research Association, a charitable body whose mission is to promote research in the modern humanities and to publish books and journals in modern languages. He is Director of the team that is preparing the electronic edition of the Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Correspondence. He has published widely on the French eighteenth century. He took early retirement from the University in September 2008 in order to act as a consultant on quality assurance and to lead the Bernardin project until its completion.  In 1998 he was made a Chevalier dans l`Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French government for services to French culture.  He has now been promoted to the rank of Officer. 

 
Mr Mike Pupius
 
Mike joined Sheffield Hallam University as Director of Organisational Excellence nine years ago with the brief to implement the EFQM Excellence Model across the University. He is now Director of the Centre for Integral Excellence at the University which is specialising in the cultural transformation of organisations. The Centre is part of the Faculty for Organisation and Management.   For the last nine years he has been leading a consortium of UK universities, including Chester, Cranfield, Durham and the University of the Arts, London, in a programme of work to evaluate the benefits of applying the EFQM Excellence Model in Higher Education and embedding the principles of excellence. The programme was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England under their developing Good Management Practice and Leadership, Governance and Management Initiatives.  The programme looked at ways universities could improve all aspects of leadership, strategy, resources and processes in the delivery of the student experience.   With a background in general management, he was formerly Director of Business Excellence and Planning for Royal Mail North East (turnover £500m) he was first trained as an EFQM assessor in 1992. He was an assessor for the 2000 EFQM Public Sector Award winner.   As Public Sector Manager on secondment to EFQM (1997-1999) he was responsible for developing the 1999 Public Sector version of the Excellence Model. He was chair of the Cabinet Office Benchmarking Good Practice Advisory Board that had oversight of the introduction of the Excellence Model across the whole of the UK Public Sector.  He became founding Chair of the EFQM Education Community of Practice, a network that provided members with the opportunity to meet with other institutions from the UK and Europe who are considering using, or who are already using, the EFQM Excellence Model as a framework for continuous improvement.   He has developed excellent relationships with the United Arab Emirates, working on a number of quality projects involving the Executive Office, e-TQM college, Dubai Holding, TECOM, the Dubai Quality Group and the Dubai School of Government. 
 
Prof. Riad Bayoumi
 
Riad A.L. Bayoumi was educated in Khartoum and the UK. He obtained his Medical Degree (MB BS) in 1967, his PhD (Biochemistry) in 1973, his MRCPath (Clinical Biochemistry) in 1975 and FRCPath in 1995. He is currently Professor of Basic Medical Sciences in Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE. His previous positions included: Assistant, associate and Full Professor at the University of Khartoum, Sudan from 1977-91; Professor of Biochemistry at United Arab Emirates University from 1991-98. Head of Clinical Biochemistry in the College of Medicine at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman from 1998-2014. He has made important contributions to human genetics research in the Sudan, UAE and Oman. In the study of genetic diseases he was instrumental in mapping of Joubert Syndrome, Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia and Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia. He is currently involved in the study of genetic susceptibility to obesity, diabetes mellitus and the evolution of lactase persistence among large extended Arab pedigrees. Professor Bayoumi also has extensive academic and administrative experience in medical education and accreditation of institutions of higher education.
 
Dr Shakir Al Musili
 
Dr. Shakir Al-Musili received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Baghdad, in 1981 and worked in the adhesives industry as a Production Engineer for several years. Joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Loughborough University of Technology-UK, as Teaching and Research Assistant in 1986 working towards his Ph.D. degree, which was awarded in 1991, specializing in the field of Power Electronics and Machine Drives. Between 1992 and 1997 Dr. Al-Musili worked as Engineering Director establishing and managing the operations of the Bonding Pastes Industry in Amman, Jordan. In 1993 and until 2000 he also worked for the Faculty of Engineering at Al Isra Private University, Amman-Jordan, as an Assistant Professor, where he served as Head of the Electrical Engineering Department between 1994 and 1998. Dr. Al-Musili then moved to Canada and joined Schneider-Electric, Mississauga, Ontario, as a Research Engineer during 2001-2002 working on the design and development of a Programmable DC Protective Relay unit. In 2002 he joined the Ministry of Manpower, Muscat-Oman, first as Dean of Al Musanna College of Technology and, in 2010, as Dean of Nizwa College of Technology where he provided leadership for pedagogical development and delivery of various disciplines in Engineering, IT and Business programs.  Between 2011-2021 he worked as Technological Education Expert with the Directorate General for Technological Education, Ministry of Manpower, and then the University of Technology and Applied Science, Muscat-Oman supervising the design, delivery, and evaluation of effectiveness of programs and curricula, and advised in the areas of Strategic Planning, Training Needs Assessments, Leadership Training, Performance Management, Development of Legislations, Policies and Strategic Planning. Since the inception of the Oman Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education (OAAAQA), he was involved as an external reviewer and participated in auditing and institutional accreditation of many Omani higher education institutes and was involved in the development of the Oman Qualification Framework (OQF). Since August 2021 Dr. Al-Musili is still engaged with the (OAAAQA) as a freelance higher education reviewer based in Dubai-UAE.
 
Dr. Thomas Heming
 
Dr. Heming completed his undergraduate studies (BSc) at University of Guelph, MSc at University of Victoria, and PhD (Physiology) at University of British Columbia (Canada).  He completed postdoctoral studies in Department of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (USA). He was Head of Toxicology for Alberta Department of Environment (Canada) from 1985-1987. He then served as a faculty member, jointly, in the Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Texas Medical Branch from 1987-2002. From 2002-2004, he was Associate Professor in Department of Internal Medicine at University of Texas Health Science Center. He joined Oman Medical College in Oman in 2004 and currently is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Physiology. The college is affiliated to West Virginia University (USA), where Dr. Heming holds the position of Adjunct Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in the School of Medicine.   Dr. Heming has played an active role in the Oman Quality Network for Higher Education from the network’s inception and was former Chairman of the Executive Committee. He has considerable experience in quality audits and accreditation reviews, and has served as an external reviewer for the national accreditation agencies of Oman, UAE (Dubai), and Bahrain.