Bayan College, Institutional Standards Assessment, Jan 2019
 
Dr. Julie Jackson
 

Dr Julie Jackson was a Pro Vice-Chancellor at La Trobe University, Australia for a period of 14years, retiring in early 2016.  She held a variety of portfolios primarily in the areas of quality enhancement, educational partnerships and community engagement.  She led the development of the University quality management framework and the preparations for the AUQA audits in 2004 and 2009 as well as guiding the document preparation for the 2016 TEQSA re-accreditation.  She was a member of the La Trobe University Academic Board for 14 years and was elected to the University Council in 2005. She chaired the University Coursework Committee and the Scholarships Committee.     Dr Jackson served as an Australian Universities Quality Agency honorary auditor from 2002 until 2010. She was also the Universities Australia nominee to the Joint Steering Group for the Australian Universities Quality Forum. With a long experience of accreditation and quality assurance in higher education, she was a Ministerial appointee  to the Victorian Higher Education Advisory Committee from 2000 until 2010.She serves on quality assurance and accreditation panels in Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa, as well as Oman.  She is also a registered assessor for the new Australian national accreditation agency, the Tertiary Education and Quality Standards Agency. She has been a visiting academic at a number of Australian and international universities and was a finalist in the Australian Awards for University Teaching, Institutional category in 1998.  With five degrees including qualifications in economics, econometrics, quality management and education she has published widely in these areas and has been successful in obtaining Australian Research Council and Cooperative Research Centre grants.


 
Prof. Riad Bayoumi
 
Riad A.L. Bayoumi was educated in Khartoum and the UK. He obtained his Medical Degree (MB BS) in 1967, his PhD (Biochemistry) in 1973, his MRCPath (Clinical Biochemistry) in 1975 and FRCPath in 1995. He is currently Professor of Basic Medical Sciences in Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE. His previous positions included: Assistant, associate and Full Professor at the University of Khartoum, Sudan from 1977-91; Professor of Biochemistry at United Arab Emirates University from 1991-98. Head of Clinical Biochemistry in the College of Medicine at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman from 1998-2014. He has made important contributions to human genetics research in the Sudan, UAE and Oman. In the study of genetic diseases he was instrumental in mapping of Joubert Syndrome, Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia and Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia. He is currently involved in the study of genetic susceptibility to obesity, diabetes mellitus and the evolution of lactase persistence among large extended Arab pedigrees. Professor Bayoumi also has extensive academic and administrative experience in medical education and accreditation of institutions of higher education.
 
Dr Saleh Salim Al Busaidi
 
Dr Saleh Salim Al-Busaidi is an Associate Professor of English as a Foreign Language at the College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Sultanate of Oman. He received his BA in TEFL at Sultan Qaboos University in 1995, his MA in TEFL at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom in 1997, and his PhD in curriculum studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in 2003. He served as the Director of the Language Centre at SQU  from 2010 to 2016. He has also chaired and taken part in many committees and project teams inside and outside SQU. Dr Al-Busaidi has also served on several audit panels. He has participated in the development of the General Foundation Programme (GFP) standards project supervised by the Oman Academic Accreditation Authority back in 2007. Dr Al-Busaidi has also participated in many national and international conferences and symposia. He has published many journal articles and book chapters on a range of topics. His main research interests are: learner autonomy, material development, study/academic skills, academic readiness and language acquisition.
 
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.
 
Prof. Sioux McKenna
 
Professor Sioux McKenna is Director of the Centre for Postgraduate Studies, responsible for providing support to postgraduate supervisors and scholars across the institution. She is also the doctoral coordinator of a higher education studies programme at Rhodes University in South Africa.  This programme brings together PhD candidates who are researching a wide variety of topics pertaining to higher education.  Sioux also offers support for postgraduate supervisors at her own university and at universities across South Africa.  Sioux is a member of the Higher Education Qualifications Committee Accreditation Committee which is responsible for reviewing all applications for new programmes from both public and private universities in South Africa.  She has also undertaken a number of institutional audits at universities both in South Africa and internationally.  Sioux`s own research interest is in the social inclusion or exclusion of students in higher education. Her own PhD looked at the processes whereby students take on the academic literacy practices of university study or fail to do so.