Gulf College, Institutional Standards Assessment, Mar 2017
 
Mr Chris McIntyre
 
Chris McIntyre was Dean of Cultural Affairs and member of the Office of the Vice Chancellor at the University of Hertfordshire, and previously Vice Principal of Loughborough College of Art and Design.  His academic background is in the History and Theory of Art and Design. At UH Chris built and developed of a new arts faculty focussing on professional concerns and responding to contemporary discipline issues. Chris also held portfolios for Staff Development, Marketing and Communications and Academic Quality Enhancement and chaired the Ethics Committee, Academic Quality Enhancement Committee, the Film and Digital Media Exchange and UHArts. Independently, Chris has worked in management, institutional development and academic quality for organisations in the UK and in Spain, China, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Russia and Malaysia. He currently works for national and international quality agencies as an auditor and reviewer. Recently, Chris has undertaken management and development work with a range of UK and international universities and agencies, including the University of the Creative Arts, the University of the Arts, London, the University of the Highlands and Islands and the University of the West of England. He is also a member of, and recent chair of the Academic Board of Arden University. Chris has an interest in creative professional development and has Board experience with the Crafts Council, Regional Arts Boards, Edexcel, the Arts Council of England, Theatre Is…, St Albans  School and the Museum of St Albans and continues to volunteer for local arts and education charities. 

 
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. Kiran Gopakumar Rajalekshmi
 
Dr. Kiran G.R. holds a PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics & Political Science, UK. He did his MPhil in Applied Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, from College of Engineering, Trivandrum (CET), University of Kerala. He brings around 25 years of vast experience from his key roles at national and international levels in areas relating to higher education management, teaching, research, strategic policy development, quality assurance, social computing, governance reforms, e-governance, and ICT for development. He is currently the Dean of Middle East College (MEC), which is one of the largest Higher Education Institutions in the Sultanate of Oman. Dr. Kiran has been part of the governance bodies of MEC and has been a key member in the development of two five-year strategic plans. In the last 14 years, he has taken the lead in driving the strategic objectives of the college and spearheading institutional efforts on driving student employability and internationalisation. He was instrumental in developing the Quality Management System (QMS) of Middle East College that cuts across all academic and administrative operations of the college. Under his leadership, the QMS has been audited and certified as being in adherence to ISO 9001:2015. He is an External Reviewer with the Oman Authority of Academic Accreditation (OAAA) and with the Bahrain’s Education & Training Quality Authority (BQA). Dr. Kiran was responsible to lead the college in its Institutional Standards Assessment by the OAAA in the year 2019. MEC is now OAAA accredited.
 
Prof Mohammed Badr Eldin Aboul Ela
 

Dr. Aboul-Ela earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Agriculture from Cairo University, and his Ph.D. in Animal Physiology from the University of Aberdeen, UK, in 1980. His university career started as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Egypt, and was promoted as Professor in 1987. He held several academic administrative positions at Mansoura University and UAE University, among which being a Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Faculty Recruitment & Development, and Dean. As a researcher, he published a total of 93 articles in refereed journals, and five chapters in reference books. He won several research prizes and awards including National Prize for Research in Agricultural Sciences, Egypt, 1978; Abdel-Hamid Showman`s Prize, 1988; and Presidential Distinction Medal, for Excellence in Research, 1994. He was one of the founding members of the Commission for Academic Accreditation, in the UAE when established in 2000, and was appointed as its Director in February 2007. He had a leading role in developing its Standards for Licensure and Accreditation, and the e-Learning Standards for Licensure and Accreditation. Dr. Aboul-Ela had significant and leading role in establishing the Arab Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ANQAHE), and has been re-elected as its Vice-President. In April 2011, Dr Aboul-Ela was elected as a Board Director for the International Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (INQAAHE). Dr.Aboul-Ela participated in numerous institutional and program accreditation review teams in the UAE. He also Chaired and participated in Institutional reviewing teams in Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain. He has been invited as keynote speaker on quality assurance issues at many regional and international conferences and workshops.