Oman College of Management and Technology, General Foundation Program Quality Audit, Aug 2019
 
Dr. Hala Deeb Obaid
 
Dr. Hala Obaid currently works as a Senior Review Director/ Consultant/Advisor, Academic Affairs at the Directorate of Higher Education Reviews at Education &Training Quality Authority (BQA) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. She has acted as a Review Director for several institutional and programme quality assurance reviews for all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) operating in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Since 2018, she has been selected by The Oman Academic Accreditation Authority (OAAA) to act as a chair for several General Foundation Programme audit visits in Oman, as well as being an external moderator. She also works with The German Accreditation Agency (AQAS) in auditing College of Arts and Social Science at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. She has presented several workshops conducted by BQA to HEIs covering areas related to writing effective self-evaluation report, reviewing processes for both HEIs and auditing panel, institution and programme review frameworks and training local reviewers. Her PhD Degree is in Linguistics from University of Essex, UK. Her thesis tackled issues related to effective Business English Writing, employability skills and bridging the gap between industry and academia by focusing on lifelong learning skills and genre analysis from professional and linguistic aspects. Prior to joining the BQA, she was the programme coordinator for all Business English courses offered at UoB. Her interests are around enhancing quality assurance in HEIs, genre analysis, and enhancing students’ writing skills and lifelong learning skills to easily inject them in to the workplace.
 
Dr Heidi Krzywacki
 
Dr. Heidi Krzywacki works as a university lecturer and researcher in mathematics education at the Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Finland. She has worked also as an associate professor in Malardalen University in Sweden in 2013–2015. She earned her doctorate from University of Helsinki in 2009. Her doctoral thesis focused on the process of becoming a teacher during pre-service mathematics teacher education, which was conceptualized through professional identity of teachers. Her research has focused on mathematics education, especially on teaching and learning primary school mathematics and teacher education. Recently her research interest has been on curriculum materials, especially the interplay between curriculum materials and teachers in mathematics classroom in cross-cultural contexts.Heidi Krzywacki has acted as an expert member in international development and assessment projects, such as HEI ICI project (Improving teacher´s in-service training in higher education in Peru, 2013-14), external evaluation and support of curriculum reform of basic education in Jamaica (2017), and latest collaboration for development of  teacher training in SNU (Somali National University, 2021-21). Heidi Krzywacki was also a member of the working group on the reform of the Finnish national core curriculum for pre-primary and basic education mathematics in 2014 (Finnish National Board of Education). 
 
Ms Louise Ragan
 
Louise has over twenty five years international teaching, teacher training and education management experience gained in the UK, Oman, Turkey, Cyprus and China. Following a ten-year career in newspaper journalism and the media, she gained a CELTA, followed by a DELTA and then an MA TEFL. She then trained as a CELTA trainer. For twenty years she was located in Oman, firstly within one of the Sultanate’s private colleges, then as Director of Studies and teacher training manager for a language institute. This was followed by a period within the Ministry of Education as a Regional Teacher Trainer and Advisor before her move to the Centre for Preparatory Studies at Sultan Qaboos University, where she worked within the Centre’s Assessment Unit. Louise has previously been involved in accreditation processes in Oman. She has presented at conferences internationally on teaching issues and she continues to work on teacher training courses.