Nizwa College of Applied Sciences, Institutional Quality Audit, Mar 2012
 
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.


 
Dr Saleh Salim Al Busaidi
 
Dr Saleh Salim Al-Busaidi is an Associate Professor of English as a Foreign Language at the College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Sultanate of Oman. He received his BA in TEFL at Sultan Qaboos University in 1995, his MA in TEFL at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom in 1997, and his PhD in curriculum studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in 2003. He served as the Director of the Language Centre at SQU  from 2010 to 2016. He has also chaired and taken part in many committees and project teams inside and outside SQU. Dr Al-Busaidi has also served on several audit panels. He has participated in the development of the General Foundation Programme (GFP) standards project supervised by the Oman Academic Accreditation Authority back in 2007. Dr Al-Busaidi has also participated in many national and international conferences and symposia. He has published many journal articles and book chapters on a range of topics. His main research interests are: learner autonomy, material development, study/academic skills, academic readiness and language acquisition.
 
Dr. Serge Herzog
 
Born and raised in Switzerland, Dr. Herzog completed his graduate education in government studies (MA, Georgetown University, Washington, DC) and technology management (PhD, University of Denver,USA). He joined the Emirates Center of Strategic Studies & Research in Abu Dhabi, UAE, as a research associate before moving on to become a consultant for international trade with Texas-based Ost Europa Investment Strategies, Inc. Since 2001, he has served as Director of Institutional Analysis at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA, with a concurrent appointment as statistical consultant for the university’s Center for Research Design & Analysis (CRDA).  Since 2016, he has served as Research Fellow for the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC). He has participated in numerous higher education institutional accreditations and teaches regular higher education workshops and webinars on predictive analytics and data management and reporting in affiliation with Percontor LLC. He is the author of Defense Reform and Technology (Praeger), and chapter contributor to Change and Development in the Gulf (ed. Abbas Abdelkarim; Macmillan). His publications have been covered in the Chronicle of Higher Education, University Business Magazine, Campus Technology Magazine, Research in Higher Education, European Journal of Engineering Education, and New Directions for Institutional Research (NDIR). Most recently, he is co-editor of Methodological Advances and Issues in Studying College Impact. New Directions for Institutional Research(Jossey-Bass), and Validity and Limitations of College Student Self-Report Survey Data, New Directions for Institutional Research (Jossey-Bass). In 2019, he developed the first value-added university ranking system, the College ROI.