Mazoon College , Institutional Quality Audit, Mar 2012
 
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.


 
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. 

 
Prof. Martin Oosthuizen
 
Martin Oosthuizen holds a doctoral degree in Theology from the University of South Africa. He is currently Chief Executive Officer at Cape Higher Education Consortium Western Cape, South Africa.  Until June 2011 he was the Senior Director of the Centre for Planning and Institutional Development at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), where his responsibilities focused on quality management and strategic and academic planning. He has been actively involved in the work of the South African Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC), and in particular in the development of the institutional audit system. He is also a trained institutional auditor under the HEQC’s institutional audit system, and serves as an international reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency in Scotland, the Higher Education Review Unit in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Oman Academic Accreditation Authority. He has presented various papers on quality assurance at both national and international conferences, and is a regular contributor to the Quality Assurance Forum of Higher Education South Africa (HESA). One of the key projects in which he is currently involved is a collaborative project between the NMMU and the University of Johannesburg to develop a consolidated qualifications structure for the two comprehensive universities. An important aspect of the project concerns the challenge of diversity and differentiation in the South African higher education sector.