Waljat College of Applied Sciences, Institutional Quality Audit, Dec 2008
 
Emeritus Professor Debbie Clayton
 
Debbie Clayton has worked in the University and Government sectors, and as a consultant and director of Clayton International, a private Education Consulting Company. Her consulting has a focus on quality assurance and accreditation systems as well as Transnational Education and she works with public and private institutions, as well as onshore and offshore governments. She is an international reviewer and external expert for the Oman Academic Accreditation Authority, the New Zealand Universities Academic Quality Agency, the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, the Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong, and Papua New Guinea’s Department of Higher Education Science and Technology. In Australia, she was an Australia Universities Quality Agency auditor and a member of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Establishment Taskforce. She is currently on the register of TEQSA’s external experts for onshore and offshore International Education, corporate governance, and third-party arrangements.  She is the Independent Chair of the Accreditation Committee for Queensland Prevocational Medical Accreditation which accredits prevocational medical intern programs for the State of Queensland to standards set by the Medical Board of Australia. 
 
Dr. Lejla Vrazalic
 
Dr. Lejla Vrazalic is a higher education consultant based at the Dubai Knowledge Park since 2014, and works exclusively with regulatory and accreditation agencies in Oman, the UAE and Bahrain as a QA assessor. ). Dr Vrazalic has more than twenty years of experience in the higher education sector, having held various positions and taught in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the UAE. She was the Campus Programme Co-ordinator for Business and IT programmes at Middlesex University in Dubai from 2008 to 2014. Prior to this, she held the position of Chair of the College of Business at the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UAE).  In 2006, Dr Vrazalic was awarded a Citation for educational leadership by the former Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in Australia. Dr Vrazalic has also been responsible for establishing an integrated university-wide program for educational development of students and teachers. She has chaired and presented at a number of educational conferences and workshops in the areas of teaching and learning. In 2004, Dr Vrazalic was awarded the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Business Community Partnerships. The same year, Dr. Vrazalic was recognised with the overall Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning at the University of Wollongong in Australia In addition to her roles in quality assurance and educational leadership, Dr. Vrazalic was a Research Chair for two years, and an international assessor for the Australian Research Council (ARC). 
 
Dr. Patsy Paxton
 
Dr Patsy Paxton, a Higher Education Consultant based in New Zealand, has a PhD in Education, and her academic quality expertise includes over 20 years’ experience with academic quality issues in the New Zealand and South African tertiary education sectors. She is the former Director of the South Pacific College of Natural Medicine in Auckland, New Zealand (2011-2019).  From 2007 – 2011 she served as the Senior Researcher on the South African Norway Tertiary Education Development (SANTED) project, based at the Nelson Mandela University (NMU) in South Africa. Here she was responsible for facilitating the development of coherent approaches to curriculum consolidation as well as appropriate articulation pathways between various programmes. Amongst her many responsibilities as the Academic Director at the Auckland University of Technology (1999-2007), she managed the planning and preparation for the University’s NZUAAU comprehensive academic audit in 2001 and 2006. From 1995 – 1999 Patsy was the Academic Manager at the Waikato Institute of Technology. Before emigrating to New Zealand in 1995, she was a full professor in the Vista University (South Africa) Faculty of Education (1986-1995). Her early years (1974-1986) were spent as a senior teacher of the Economic Sciences (Economics, Business Studies, Commerce). She is committed to academic quality audit and quality assurance principles in higher education and has had extensive experience in conducting academic quality reviews and audits. From her own practical experience, Patsy has a deep understanding of the challenges that often arise when quality management theory and policies are applied to institutions’ daily operations.