Sultan Qaboos University, Institutional Standards Assessment, Feb 2018
 
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.


 
Prof. Barbara Stauble
 
Dr. Barbara Stäuble is a consultant in international higher education with over 25 years of hands-on experience in Europe, Asia and the Americas. As Professor and Deputy-Rector for Academic Affairs at the German University of Technology in Oman, she played a key role in establishing this private university in affiliation with  RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Prior to taking up this position, she worked as Inaugural Director of Research & Development and as acting Dean at Curtin University of Technology, Sarawak Campus (Malaysia). An experienced academic, Dr Stäuble has also held positions as Associate Professor in Physics at the National University in Colombia and post-doctoral researcher at the Free University in Amsterdam and the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. Barbara Stäuble holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Zurich and a Master in International Education from Monash University. She has published numerous scholarly articles, including four with Nobel Laureate K.A. Müller. She has reviewed proposals for the Colombian Research Foundation COLCIENCIAS and chaired or co-chaired the organising committees for various international conferences. During her career Dr Stäuble has been conferred a number of awards, including an award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching (2004). In addition to being an External Reviewer for the Oman Authority for Academic Accreditation, Barbara Stäuble worked as a reviewer for Saudi Arabia’s National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment and was a member of the Inaugural Steering Committee of the MENA-Association for Institutional Research. 
 
Prof. Diane Meehan
 
Professor Diane Meehan is an Emeritus Professor of Liverpool John Moores University. She was Dean of the Faculty of Technology and Environment at the University from 2002-2014 and finally retired in 2016 after secondment to the Office of the PVC (Education). She was previously Director of the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University from 1998-2002. She has also worked for Teesside University, North East Wales Institute of HE (NEWI – now Glyndwr University) and Liverpool Polytechnic. Professor Meehan has had extensive experience of quality assurance both within the universities in which she worked, for example chairing validation/review panels and externally as an external examiner and external subject specialist on validation/review panels for other universities. She continues to act as an external subject specialist for universities in the UK having undertaken over 10 validations/reviews in the past three years.  She was a UK Bologna Promoter from 2005-2008 and participated in a Hussain Fund for Excellence/UNDP project for developing review methodologies in the Sudan and Jordan in 2002/3. Professor Meehan is an experienced reviewer for the UK Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) having undertaken over 60 audits/reviews in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland and internationally (in Greece, China, Oman, Bahrain,. Eire), around 12 degree awarding powers scrutinies as well as several of concerns investigations and appeals.  Her roles in Higher Education have involved considerable international activity including in China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, UAE and Ghana. She is also an approved external auditor for the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Council (QAC). 
 
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.


 
Dr Huda Abu Hamdeh
 

Dr Huda is the Associate Dean of Oman College of Health Sciences (OCHS) – Nursing Program. Before that she was the associate Dean of OCHS North Sharqiyah Branch and was the Dean of Ibra nursing Institute during. Before joining Ibra Nursing Institute in 1994, she worked as the Dean of the Institute of Specialized Nursing Studies and the Executive Director of Primary Health Care Nursing Development Project (Jordan) from 1988 to 1994. She started her career as a nursing tutor at the Jordan College of Nursing in 1976, She received her PhD in Educational Administration in 2000. She also has to her credit an MPH degree in 1988. As the Associate Dean of the Nursing Program at OCHS, Dr. Huda has been providing administrative and academic leadership, and she has been responsible for planning, implementation and evaluation of the program. She is a member of the first five-year OCHS Strategic Plan (2021- 2025) Committee. She served as the Academic Director for the Health Academic management System project (HAMS) from Sept 2015 -Sept 2019. She is a member of the Curriculum Evaluation Committee of the nursing program in the MoH.  She is involved in evaluating the nursing program and restructuring processes. She served in the Central Examination Committee of the nursing institutes for about 12 years in addition to being a member of many other national and regional committees. She served the faculty of Nursing at Sultan Qaboos University as an external examiner from 2008 to 2015. Dr. Huda participated in three institutional audit panels, two Institutional Standards assessment and two as a Review Director with OAAA besides being a member of the review team of the nursing programs offered by private higher education institutions in Oman. She also chaired and participated in the program reviewing teams (nursing) in Bahrain. Dr.Huda is a member of the MoH Research and Ethical Review and Approve Committee. She served as a facilitator of research training programs for Medical Doctors organized by the Oman Medical Specialty Board in 2014 and 2015. She organized research-training programs for health care professionals in the North Sharqiyah governorate. She served as a member of the editorial committee and a manuscript reviewer of the DGET nursing periodical “Nursing Education Oman from 2003 to 2008. Dr. Huda’s specific areas of research are Nursing Education, Curriculum Design & Evaluation, and Nursing Informatics.

 
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. 
 
Dr Saleh Al Khusaiby
 
Dr Saleh Mohammed Al Khusaiby graduated in 1974 from University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and joined the Ministry of Health in Oman in 1976.  Dr Saleh was awarded the Diploma of Tropical Child Health from the University of Liverpool in 1980 and was awarded a higher degree MRCP (UK) in 1982.  He sub-specialized in Pediatric Neonatology at the University Hospital in London where he undertook research on Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity and was awarded PhD in 1992 from the University of London.   In 1989 Dr Saleh was appointed as a Consultant Pediatrician and Head of Neonatal services in the Ministry of Health and was responsible for the development of the neonatal services in Oman.  He later became the Head of Child Health and was extensively involved in developing all child health programs.  He was made the Deputy DG of the Royal Hospital in Muscat, involved in the administration of the hospital.   Within the Ministry of Health, Dr Saleh was elected to chair many national committees and participated extensively in the organization and improvement of the health services in the country.  Dr Saleh has actively contributed in postgraduate and undergraduate teaching and training.  In September 2004, Dr Saleh was seconded by the Ministry of Health and appointed to join the Oman Medical College as Dean.   Dr Saleh has been an examiner of both national and international Boards of Examinations.  He is currently Chief Organizer and Examiner of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health (UK).  He has received a number of International Awards, including the Charles C. Shepard Science Award (CDC 2002) and was honored in 2004 by the World Health Organization.  In 2006, he was appointed as a member of the Oman Research Council (Health and Social Services) and also appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Oman Medical Specialty Board.
 
Dr Shakir Al Musili
 
Dr. Shakir Al-Musili received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Baghdad, in 1981 and worked in the adhesives industry as a Production Engineer for several years. Joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Loughborough University of Technology-UK, as Teaching and Research Assistant in 1986 working towards his Ph.D. degree, which was awarded in 1991, specializing in the field of Power Electronics and Machine Drives. Between 1992 and 1997 Dr. Al-Musili worked as Engineering Director establishing and managing the operations of the Bonding Pastes Industry in Amman, Jordan. In 1993 and until 2000 he also worked for the Faculty of Engineering at Al Isra Private University, Amman-Jordan, as an Assistant Professor, where he served as Head of the Electrical Engineering Department between 1994 and 1998. Dr. Al-Musili then moved to Canada and joined Schneider-Electric, Mississauga, Ontario, as a Research Engineer during 2001-2002 working on the design and development of a Programmable DC Protective Relay unit. In 2002 he joined the Ministry of Manpower, Muscat-Oman, first as Dean of Al Musanna College of Technology and, in 2010, as Dean of Nizwa College of Technology where he provided leadership for pedagogical development and delivery of various disciplines in Engineering, IT and Business programs.  Between 2011-2021 he worked as Technological Education Expert with the Directorate General for Technological Education, Ministry of Manpower, and then the University of Technology and Applied Science, Muscat-Oman supervising the design, delivery, and evaluation of effectiveness of programs and curricula, and advised in the areas of Strategic Planning, Training Needs Assessments, Leadership Training, Performance Management, Development of Legislations, Policies and Strategic Planning. Since the inception of the Oman Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education (OAAAQA), he was involved as an external reviewer and participated in auditing and institutional accreditation of many Omani higher education institutes and was involved in the development of the Oman Qualification Framework (OQF). Since August 2021 Dr. Al-Musili is still engaged with the (OAAAQA) as a freelance higher education reviewer based in Dubai-UAE.