BSc, MSc, PhD, CQP FCQI
Chartered Quality Professional/ Chartered Fellow of The Chartered Quality Institute (UK)
An experienced educator equipped with excellent teaching, research, administrative and educational leadership skills. Overall work experience in Higher Education (HE) of more than three decades (Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, and UK) 19 years of it in highly competitive and multicultural UAE.
These enable me to have extensive knowledge in HE sectors and a proven record of success in getting initiatives off the ground and flourishing as proven by the international awards bestowed upon me. I have worked for the construction industry for fourteen years before joining academia. I have had the opportunity of being a key person in creating a university from concept to reality which requires vision, passion, and courage to attempt to innovate and to deliberately create a new and improved learning culture. The aforementioned positions have enabled me to develop a high level of skills and experience in the following areas:
- Curriculum Design and Development.
- Creating innovative programs, extending from inception of idea, through preparing and planning, to developing and
implementing and providing support structures - Hands on involvement in managerial level in delivering quality programs and working closely with the quality accreditation
agencies - Extensive experience in consultation in HE. Delivering special expertise in quality related issues and working as an external expert
in organizations that need to start new HE programs which have information dissemination and knowledge creation as the focus
of their program activity. - Extensive experience in faculty recruitment in a highly diversified background for nearly two decades.
- Established a system of institutional research of a very high standard. This is a citation from one of the CAA’s Visiting Committees
(VC) report on 25th March, 2007) regarding the accreditation on the B.Sc. Program in Computer Engineering. This system was highly commended by the VC as stated in its report “((It is evident that IU takes it responsibilities in this area seriously and is in the process
of establishing a system of institutional research of a very high standard. The work completed so far is very impressive and the use of the results is highly commendable. The VC has a number of recommendations in this area, but these focus on ways in which IU can now complete its institutional research project and rectify a number of problems within the existing policies and procedures. Overall, IU has implemented an objectives/outcomes-based approach and sees the positive benefits that will follow from carefully prepared institutional research, in terms of sound strategic planning and institutional development. In large part this is due to the enthusiasm and expertise of the current Director of the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Quality Administration (PEQA), Dr Abdul Sattar Al-Alusi. PEQA has a full-time assistant and publishes a number of monographs that summarize theresults of institutional research, especially those concerned with student satisfaction. There is an impressive computer-based analysis tool for student satisfaction that is available to all faculty members.”)). In this IR system I have initiated and developed Institutional Research Monographs Series for the evaluation of all the University operations and services. In addition, in later stages of the development, I have initiated and developed the “Program Annual Assessment Report” reporting in a Wholistic approach the annual assessments of all the academic program aspects with an improving strategy for the next cycle. - A comprehensive experience in the Accreditation & Licensure Standards of the Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA), UAE and Kingdom of Bahrain Education & Training Quality Authority (BQA). Have good knowledge of Oman Academic Accreditation Authority (OAAA), UK, and Australia, in addition to the AACSB and SACSCOC Accreditation Standards.
- Teaching and Supervising Masters and PhD students.
I am inducted as a Chartered Quality Professional/ Chartered Fellow of The Chartered Quality Institute of UK, listed international consultant in Quality Assurance in Higher Education by the Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN), and member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE).
Because of this intensive knowledge combined with vast experience in different countries I have been recognized as a distinguished management, academic, and QA consultant in various countries. Additionally, I am supervising PhD students at UK universities.