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Maha
Nominated By: Narymane Elnashar
Nominee Application Form: Part A
Title: Doctor
Family Names(s): Rashwan
Mailing Address: Cairo-Egypt. Nasr city, 6th district, 5 Mahmoud el-meliguy street, national authority for quality assurance and accreditation
Country: Egypt
Office Telephone: +20224008580
Office Fax: +20222619269
Residence Telephone: +20123702380
Email: maharashwan@yahoo.com
Nationality/Citizenship: Egyptian
Date of Birth: 25-06-1968
Current Position: Technical office director
Current Employer: National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of education- Egypt
Please indicate your fluency levels in various languages (Comma Separated)
Fluent in Reading: Arabic,English,French
Fluent in Writing: Arabic,English,French
Fluent in Speaking: Arabic,English,French
Academic Qualifications and Training
1. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Masters of Medical Education (top of class),Jointly - Suez canal university and Maastricht University,2010
2. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Masters of pathology,Suez canal university- Faculty of Medicine,1997
3. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery,Suez canal university- Faculty of Medicine,1991
4. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Doctoral degree in pathology,Suez canal university- Faculty of Medicine,2003
Nominee Application Form: Part B
Areas:
- Institutional quality assurance reviews / audits
- Program reviews / accreditations
- General QA consultancy
Specialisations:
- Setting up of new QA agency
- Training of experts/external reviewers
- Internal QA of institutions
- Self study guidance to institutions
- External review of institutions
- Quality Indicators and benchmarks
- Institutional assessment
- Institutional quality audits
- Institutional accreditation
- Student feedback and surveys
Other (please specify): Strategic planning
Examples of Experience: National & International Consultations / Audit / Review
1. Brief Description: Deputy Director of Quality Assurance unit,
Institution/City/Country: Faculty of medicine -Suez Canal University Egypt
Date: 2006-7
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
- Programme Review / Accreditation
2. Brief Description: A-Participating in setting the Egyptian (common model UNIQUE-NAQAAE) accreditation standards for e learning institutional accreditation
B- Accreditaion of the American University Cairo(AUC)
B- Accreditaion of the American University Cairo(AUC)
Institution/City/Country: Egypt- national authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education
Date: A-2009. B-2011
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
- Programme Review / Accreditation
3. Brief Description: Training Peer reviewers for external evaluation for accreditation purposes
Institution/City/Country: Egypt- national authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education
Date: 2008-9
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
4. Brief Description: Writing instituitional self assessment report
Institution/City/Country: Faculty of medicine -Suez Canal University Egypt
Date: 2003 &2006
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Programme Review / Accreditation
Nominee Application Form: Part C
Please write a professional profile of 500 words.
Professional Summary Description: My name is Dr. Maha Rashwan, i graduated medical school with honors in 1991, and was appointed as a demonstrator, assistant lecturer and currently lecturer of Pathology in the faculty of Medicine -Suez canal University. As an educator, I was involved in various educational aspects in my faculty besides my specialty in pathology. I established the MCQ committee and MCQ Bank; I headed the evaluation and monitoring committee prior to the establishment of the quality assurance unit and I was a member of the management team that carried out our first school self study. I participated in establishment of the quality assurance unit that I later held the post of its deputy director. Part of my responsibility in the quality assurance unit was to design student questionnaires and to conduct course and program evaluation and prepare the faculty annual report.rn I was a member of the team developing the strategic plan of our faculty, and I participated in drafting the strategic plan for the university as well. In 2008 I was recruited by NAQAAE (then, a newly established governmental authority for accreditation of education) to participate as a consultant in setting quality assurance and accreditation criteria for higher education. following which I was offered the post of technical office director (which I currently hold). Through my post, I was responsible for drafting the initial versions of other criteria issued by NAQAAE including ( accreditation of open and distance learning programs, accreditation of e learning, good practices in internal quality assurance) .rn In addition I participated in drafting NAQAAE strategic plan as well as other aspects of NAQAAE activities including developing a proposal for an Egyptian national Qualification Framework.rnI also was responsible for preparing training material and conducting training workshops for the training of peer reviewers for external evaluation of higher education institutions. rnIn March 2010, I graduated Masters in medical education offered through distance learning Jointly by Maastricht and Suez-Canal universities (top of class ) .rnI was a member of the National Task force that set a proposal for a nationalcareer guidance policy for Egypt.rn In 2011 I coordinated the NAQAAE reviewers team that accredited the American University in Cairo. rnI am Currently working on a number of projects as part of my duties in NAQAAE , at the top of which is developing the Egyptian National Qualification Framework.
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