Sohar College of Applied Sciences, Institutional Quality Audit, Feb 2010
 
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.

 
Dr Philip Westbury Cardew
 
Phil Cardew’s academic career began as a lecturer in medieval English and Icelandic literature, working at the universities of Leeds, Hull and Southampton before becoming Programme Director for the undergraduate programme at the University of Winchester. During this time, he also became extensively involved in quality assurance, both at faculty and institutional level and in work as an institutional auditor for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA).Phil left Winchester to become Assistant Director in the Reviews Group of the QAA, returning to an institutional role in 2005. In 2006 he was appointed Pro Vice Chancellor at London South Bank University and moved from there to become Deputy Vice Chancellor at Leeds Beckett University in 2015, where his role encompasses leadership of quality and standards, as well as all student-facing services. He continues to undertake audit work for the QAA, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Australia) and the Hong Kong Council for the Validation and Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, as well as acting in an advisory capacity for other universities and external agencies, both within the UK and internationally. 
 
Mr. Robert Carmichael
 
Prior to joining AUQA in 2002, Rob was the Head of the Office for Quality Education at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and prior to that worked in the vocational education and training sector as a curriculum and educational development specialist.  Since 2002 Rob has been the Audit Director for 11 audits conducted by AUQA, including in 2006 the first audit of a non self-accrediting institution to be audited by AUQA. He also represented AUQA on the Working Group established by the Australian Federal Government for the auditing of non-self accrediting Higher Education Providers. He is therefore familiar with auditing a wide-range of education and training institutions in terms of their type, size, complexity, and program profiles.  In 2007 Rob participated in the project to establish the Universities Review Unit (URU) in Bahrain, and visited Bahrain in October that year to assist the development of URU professional staff with the writing of review reports. That same year Rob was also contracted by the Hong Kong Universities Grants Committee to facilitate the general induction and pre-audit intensive training of auditors on the register of the new Quality Assurance Council in Hong Kong.