Al-Zahra College for Women, Institutional Quality Audit, Mar 2010
 
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 Maha Merghani Kobeil
 
Dr. Maha Kobeil, Dean, Majan College (University College), Muscat, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in Applied Linguistics and an MA from the University of Liverpool, UK. Her extensive experience in the areas of higher education, teaching, curriculum evaluation, planning and development, and institutional and programme quality assurance standards has spanned more than eighteen years.  She has expertise in the fields of English Language, Applied Linguistics, Quality Assurance, Teacher Education, and Student Counselling. She has supervised dissertations at Masters Level in Khartoum University and Al Neelain University in Sudan as well as undergraduate projects in Ahfad University and Majan College. Dr. Kobeil has been involved in the preparation of documentation for programme validations, institutional reviews and strategic planning. She also plays an active role in ensuring that quality assurance standards are adhered to. She has chaired and actively participated in Examination Boards in the Business and IT Faculties in Majan as well as being an external examiner for programmes in other institutions. She was instrumental in the preparation and implementation of the BA (Hons) in English Language and the validation of the Majan’s new Foundation Programme in 2003. Dr. Kobeil has contributed to the development of the English Language courses for the Colleges of Applied Sciences with the Ministry of Higher Education. She was a member of the working group for establishing the National Standards for General Foundation Programmes in Oman. Her research interests are in the areas of reading comprehension, information processing, critical thinking skills, and student learning styles.
 
Prof. Martin Henson
 
Martin Henson is a Higher Education Consultant based in the UK.  He is a former Professor of Computer Science at the University of Essex in the UK, where he was Dean of International Development. Between 2000 and 2006 he was Head of the School of Computer Science and Electronic Systems Department. Martin has extensive accreditation experience in the Gulf region, having been involved in more than 50 program and institutional accreditations, mainly in the UAE, but also in Saudi Arabia. For periods during 2007 and 2008 he worked for the UAE Ministry if Higher Education’s Commission of Academic Accreditation as a Consultant Commissioner, aiding with the revision of the UAE Standards for Accreditation and Licensure, and leading their strategic planning project. Professor Henson has recently given keynote addresses on outcomes-based curriculum development, and on institutional research strategic planning in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. His other recent international consultancy has included Jordan, Kuwait, the West Indies and Sweden. His research activities focus on formal methods for software engineering, in the last ten years concentrating especially on specification logics for languages such as Z. He the author/editor of several books, and has published more than 100 articles in the area. His most recent contribution concerns the specification logic nuZ, and is included in the Springer monograph: “Formal Methods: State of the Art and New Directions”.
 
Dr. Sebti Kerbal
 
Sebti Kerbal received his PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1998 and MSc in 1993 from Ottawa University, Canada.  From January 1997 to May 1999, Dr. Kerbal was a lecturer at the School of Information Technology and Engineering in Ottawa University.  From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Kerbal was an Assistant Professor at UAE University in Al-Ain, UAE.  In August 2003, Dr Kerbal joined Sultan Qaboos University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and promoted to associate professor in 2012. Dr. Kerbal’s teaching load during his academic positions has always been divided into service and specialty courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, Dr. Kerbal has been involved in different academic and teaching responsibilities at the department and faculty levels. Dr. Kerbal was an active member in learning outcomes assessment, Chairman and Member of Calculus Courses Content Revision Committees, and member of the mathematics program review in 2020.  He has also been a faculty member in E-Learning and Online Mathematics courses development, active member in the curriculum committee and programs review at Sultan Qaboos University.  Dr. Kerbal was also acting as the Chair of the Mathematics Working Group for the General Foundation Program Standards developed by the OAC and approved by the Ministry of Higher Education in Oman. In addition to internal quality audit, Dr. Kerbal conducted HEI quality audit programs in Oman and abroad. Dr. Kerbal is group leader of FracDiff research group and current research addresses fractional differential equations including blow up solutions, inverse problems, and stability. A good number of scientific papers have been published in reputed journals. Dr Kerbal’s research has received funding from Sultan Qaboos University and the research center (TRC).
 
Dr. Wafa Abdulrahman Al Mansoori
 
Dr Wafa Abdulrahman Al Mansoori currently occupies the post of Director of Institutional Research and Assessment at the American University of Bahrain, where she is responsible for developing and leading the implementation of institutional research and assessment program to support the university’s mission and strategic initiatives. She received her BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bahrain, her MSc degree in Microelectronic Systems and Communications from the University of Liverpool, UK, and her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University, USA. In 2007, Dr Almansoori joined Bahrain’s Education Reform Project where she has assisted in the development of the Higher Education Quality Review System and participated in the pilot implementation of the System.  From 2008 to 2020 she occupied different positions at Bahrain’s Education & Training Quality Authority. These included the Director of the Directorate of Higher Education Reviews, Director of the Directorate of Vocational Reviews, Chair of the Academic Committee. Prior to that, she was a faculty member of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department at the University of Bahrain. Dr. Almansoori was appointed as a member of the Council for Regulating the Practice of Engineering Professions from 2013 to 2016 and as the Vice Chairman of the Council from 2016-2019. She is a member of the Bahrain Society of Engineers. Dr Al Mansoori is the recipient of the “Anita Borg Change Agent Award” in 2007.