APQN Database of Consultants
Wafa
Nominated By: Tareq Alsindi
Nominee Application Form: Part A
Title: Doctor
Family Names(s): Almansoori
Mailing Address: wafa.almansoori@qaa.edu.bh
Country: Bahrain
Office Telephone: +973-17-562314
Office Fax: +973-17-562306
Residence Telephone: +973-36280204
Email: wafa.almansoori@qaa.edu.bh
Nationality/Citizenship: Bahraini
Date of Birth: 28-08-1965
Current Position: Senior Director
Current Employer: Quality Assurance Authority for Education and Training
Please indicate your fluency levels in various languages (Comma Separated)
Fluent in Reading: Arabic, English
Fluent in Writing: Arabic, English
Fluent in Speaking: Arabic, English
Academic Qualifications and Training
1. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: PhD in Electronics Engineering,Tufts University,1996
2. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Masters in Electronics Engineering,University of Liverpool,1987
3. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: BSc in Electrical Engineering,University of Bahrain ,1986
Nominee Application Form: Part B
Areas:
- Institutional quality assurance reviews / audits
- Program reviews / accreditations
- General QA consultancy
Specialisations:
- Training of experts/external reviewers
- Self study guidance to institutions
- External review of institutions
- Quality Indicators and benchmarks
- External Review of QAAs
- Institutional assessment
- Institutional quality audits
- Institutional accreditation
- QA of cross border offerings
- Student feedback and surveys
Examples of Experience: National & International Consultations / Audit / Review
1. Brief Description: Institutional Reviews of (public Institutions, private institutions, branches of international providers, affiliated institutions)
Institution/City/Country: 7 Higher Education Institutions in Bahrain
Date: 2008 - current
Type of Experience:
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
2. Brief Description: Director of Bachelor of Law Reviews
and master of IT Reviews
Also as panel member in Follow-up Reviews of Bachelor of Business Adminstration Programmes
and master of IT Reviews
Also as panel member in Follow-up Reviews of Bachelor of Business Adminstration Programmes
Institution/City/Country: 3 Bachelor of Law programmes, 2 Master of IT, 2 BBA programmes for dollow-up programmes in different HE institutions in Bahrain
Date: sept - Dec 2010
Type of Experience:
- Programme Review / Accreditation
3. Brief Description: Part of the Team assigned with the establishment of the Quality Assurance Authority for Education and Training.
Institution/City/Country: QAAET/Bahrain
Date: November2010
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
4. Brief Description: External Panel member for Institutional Reviews
Institution/City/Country: Zahwa College for women/Masqat/Oman
Date: March 2010
Type of Experience:
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
Nominee Application Form: Part C
Please write a professional profile of 500 words.
Professional Summary Description: Dr. Wafa Abdul Rahman Almansoori is a Senior Director in the Quality Assurance Authority for Education and Training, Higher Education Review Unit, Kingdom of Bahrain. She also serves on the External Reviewer Board for Oman Accreditation Council, Saltanat OmanShe received her B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Bahrain in June 1996, her Master Degree in Microelectronic Systems and Communications from the University of Liverpool, UK in Oct. 1997, and her PhD Degree in electronics from Tufts University, USA in Feb. 1996. Dr. Wafa joined the Quality Assurance Project in 2007 and assisted in the development of the Higher Education Review System and participated in the pilot projects. Prior to her joining the Quality Assurance Authority, Dr. Almansoori was a faculty member of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, University of Bahrain. Apart from her teaching responsibilities she was an active member of the departmental Accreditation Committee. She also served as the coordinator of the Electronics group and the Master Programs, and on a number of ad-hoc committees assigned with program reviews. Her Research Interest is within the areas of Teaching & learning and Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its application of ICT in Society Development. rnDr. AlMansoori is a member in: Arab Network of Women in Science & Technology (ANSWAT), Bahrain Society of Engineers (BSE), the Federation of Arab Engineers-Information Communication Technology (FAE-ICT). She is also the Secretary of the IEEE-Bahrain Section. rnAl Mansoori is the recipient of the â??Anita Borg Change Agent Awardâ? in 2007
Documents Submitted
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