Muscat University, General Foundation Program Quality Audit, Apr 2025
 
Prof. Dolina Dowling
 
Dolina Dowling’s career has spanned four decades in the field of education, from primary school to university level. She has held executive positions in higher education institutions. Dr Dolina has considerable knowledge of higher education in the Middle East primarily from having been the Executive Director of the Directorate of Higher Education Reviews of the Qualification and Education and Training Authority (BQA) in the Kingdom of Bahrain from 2008-2014. She is a Quality Award Advisor and assessor for the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. Dr Dolina provides education and management consultancy to both public and private higher education and tertiary institutions as well as quality assurance agencies. She has successfully completed projects in strategic planning, quality assurance and accreditation, change management as well as research planning and capacity building both at the institutional and individual levels. She has extensive editorial experience of books and academic journals. She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Independent Journal of Teaching and Learning of which she was the founding editor in 2006. The journal is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education in South Africa. She has published widely and has delivered numerous papers at conferences. She holds two diplomas in Education, a Bachelor’s degree, a Master’s degree in Philosophy as well as a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

 
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).