Gulf College, Institutional Quality Audit, Apr 2011
 
Dr Ahmed Hassan Al Bulushi
 
Dr. Ahmed Hassan Al Bulushi is currently the Dean of Engineering College at Notational University of Science and Technology. Previously known as Caledonian College of Engineering in the Sultanate of Oman. He has a doctoral degree in management from the Argosy University, Chicago, US (2007) an MBA from Luton University, UK (1999) and B.Ed. from Bristol University, UK (1994). Dr. Ahmed is an experienced academic who started his career as an educator in 1986. His academic expertise is in Business & Education Management discipline and his research interests focuses on Leadership, HRM & HRD and Quality Management in Higher Education. Prior to joining Caledonian Dr. Ahmed was the Assistant Dean of the first private college established in the Sultanate, where he spent 15 years managing, teaching, researching, and developing academic programs, QA & organizational systems and standards. Dr. Al Bulushi is a recipient of internationally recognized Fulbright scholarship award and the Best Teacher Certificate awarded by the Ministry of Education, Oman. Most recently, he was awarded a professorial status from Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK in recognition of his outstanding work in Transnational Education (TNE). In addition, he is the founding member of Oman HE Quality Network (OHEQN) and served more than three years as a member of its Executive Committee. Dr Ahmed is an Ambitious, determined, Self-confident and self-reliant Chief executive with leadership capabilities. Preferring to act on his own, he loves to contribute for the development of Higher education sector in Oman by nurturing talents and build local capacity.

 
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. 
 
Dr. Elizabeth C. Stanley
 

Dr. Stanley (Ph.D.,Analytical Chemistry, University of Illinois, 1972) served in faculty and administrative positions in higher education organizations in the United States for 28 years and in Saudi Arabia for two years before joining the Office of the Provost at Zayed University (United Arab Emirates) in fall 2001.  She retired from her position at Zayed University in August 2010 and currently serves as an independent consultant in higher education, with particular interests in accreditation and international higher education.    Dr. Stanley previously held positions in institutional research, institutional advancement, academic affairs, business and finance, continuing education, assessment of experiential learning, and degree program coordination.  She has consulted with a number of institutions, held leadership roles in professional organizations, and served as a consultant-evaluator with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, as a site visitor for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and as an external reviewer for the Oman Academic Accreditation Authority.