Dr. Syed Ali Tarek Email & Phone Number

Dartford, Gb

United Kingdom

• Initiated and created synergy between academic, admission and marketing teams to drive student numbers of newer programmes from a single digit to three digits in less than nine months, with the MBA programme seeing 371% and the Executive MBA seeing a 350% growth on April 23.• Significantly improvised and implemented a revised academic annual workload plan across the school to bring consistency in Lecturer and Senior Lecturer engagement. The Annual Workload system is now rolled across the university. • Assisted the Head of School with the school's budget (currently £98m), including budgeting of the UG, PG provision and new partnerships in the Middle East, Singapore, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.• Led Arden's entry as the 100th AACSB-accredited university in the UK and currently leading the AACSB accreditation process for the Executive MBA programme.• Led one of the fastest programme validations in the history of Arden with a new suit of Executive MBA programme with pathways.• Led academic teams for Arden's DL and BL teaching pedagogy, and currently, changes are implemented, leading to higher student retention, level progression and completion.• Initiated Academic Professional Development Champion role for improving staff retention.• Developed exclusive 'Arden Future Business Leaders Forum', providing external networking opportunities with industry leaders and showcasing our PG student achievements. • Championing the school's research agenda on ESD through scholarly contributions and dissemination to various external stakeholders. • Effectively line managing 9 Senior Lecturers responsible for line managing 35 full-time lecturers and over 250 associates delivering UG and PG programmes to 9038 UG and PG students. • Mentoring SFHEA and FHEA applicants in the school, contributing to developing future higher education leaders.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Led a £9m revenue-estimated programme development team from the project kick-off to the working group creation stage. The programme launch got delayed; hence I moved to my next role with Arden.

London, United Kingdom

Academic Integrity Officer PG Business, 2021-Assessment Working Group-Academic Lead for PG Business, 2020-Sept 2021Module Leader-Leading and Working in the Digital Business Environment, Nov 2020- Sept 2021.Module Leader-PG Business Research Project/ Dissertation, May 2020- Sept 2021.Module Leader-Operations and Supply Chain Management, May 2020- Sept 2021.Lecturer HRM(CIPD)/Management, Aug 2018- 2020.Key Achievement: • Managing a pool of over 50 dissertation supervisors and ensure the research projects are allocated to the right supervisor, giving ethical approval for primary research, and ensuring the allocated supervisors are making progress.• Conducting monthly standardisation meetings and ensuring the team is aware of the recent developments.• Actively assisting HOS and Dissertation Academic Lead to strengthen the procedural aspects of dissertation management. • Creating detailed analytical ML reports to assist completion of AMR and ARAP.• Higher retention rates on all taught modules with good submission rates and student satisfaction. • Successfully taught a portfolio of courses at FY, UG and PG level, demonstrating my versatility in traversing from one discipline to another across different levels with ease. • Taught at all London campuses and Berlin campus with an excellent rapport with the management team and academic staff members at all if the sites.

• Working with a team of investigators to reach academic judgements about the quality of a provider’s higher education courses, following the relevant investigation scope and the OfS’s regulatory requirements.• Identifying, analysing and triangulating relevant quantitative and qualitative information, which may be imperfect or contradictory, to reach robust and defensible judgements which are well-reasoned, evidence-based and outcomes-focused.• Contributing to the ongoing evaluation and development of the OfS’s approach to the assessment of the quality.• Member of the inspectorate pool who conducts assessments for degree awarding powers.

Member of the committee assessing quality and standards for institutions seeking registration with the Office for Students (OfS) or to obtain degree awarding powers.

1. Multiple international awards won by Earth Aid in the last 5 years. 2. In 2017, I have been invited and presented my policy recommendations in High-Level Policy discussions in ITU, the UN’s specialised agency for ICTs. 3. I represented Earth AId, in the Launch of the Sendai Framework Monitoring Process, 2017, Bonn, Germany.

London, United Kingdom

• Conducting learner verification visits for BTEC (Level 4-7) Management qualifications.• Timely producing accurate reports for centres and Pearson on: the sampling undertaken, outcomes reached, and support provided.

Dartford, United Kingdom

Core responsibilities include:• Conducting learner verification visit ranging from Level 3 to Level 7 on various Business Management courses.• Reviewing, amending and updating Level 3- 7 Business qualifications (RQF) for Ofqual approval.• Writing RQF qualifications. Wrote a suite of Level 4, 5, 6 and 7 RQF qualifications on Sustainability, Computing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Risk Management.

London, United Kingdom

Module Leadership: -Leading and Managing Change (BA) -Strategic Marketing (BA)Achievement: • 95% of students achieving 60% or higher grade in the taught evening classes in 2023• Designed and reviewed BA(Hons) Business validated course. Core Responsibilities: • Developed innovative learning materials, teaching business management units at UG and PG level. • Following the university guidelines to mark student works and providing constructive feedback.

London, England, United Kingdom

Achievement: • 90% of the allocation submitted and passed their thesis three months before the target end date. Core Responsibilities: • Ensuring compliance with all University policies and regulations, including the key policies and procedures relating to supervision and examination.• Maintain contact with the students in the touchpoints and guide them to conduct academic research.• First and second marking dissertations.

London, United Kingdom

Core responsibilities include:• Conducting learner verification visits at recognised centres across the UK. Verifying the process for the award of credit to learners through a rigorous process of sampling of assessment and learner evidence of achievement. • Guiding centres to consistently achieve the AO standards which are directly interrelated to standards set by Ofqual and QAA.• Producing targeted actions, applying appropriate sanctions & monitoring improvements.• Acting professionally when performing external quality assurance duties and not bring ATHE into disrepute.

Colchester, United Kingdom

• Acting as the External Quality Assurer in allocated subject areas for qualifications and courses offered by Gateway Qualifications.• Ensuring that regulated qualifications are delivered and assessed per the qualification specification.• Identifying any areas of concern at centres as well as those needing further development and producing time-bound actions to contribute to quality improvement.

London, United Kingdom

Achievements: 1. Demonstrating exceptional leadership skills to ensure the partnership with the main campus at Cambridge worked seamlessly. 2. Despite a tight budget, I ensured the faculty was sufficiently staffed, student retention rates were high with 90% successful completion rate. Broader Responsibilities:1. Initiating, reviewing and developing new and existing programmes within the parameters established by the General Academic Regulations and the Academic Development Plan. 2. Engaging with the Head of Quality Assurance, programme leaders of the School of Business, Hospitality and Tourism to ensure that CRC programmes are of high academic quality, aligned to relevant professional benchmarks and the best possible experience for students. 3. Approving and assigning Scheme of Works, Lesson Plans, Individual Learning Plans and assessment plans as per the main campus requirements. 4. Managing internal verification and external verification visits.5. Formulating, developing, implementing, updating and auditing CRC’s academic plans. 6. Developing plans to improve the student experience within CRC. 7. Scrutinising the Annual Programme Monitoring Reports and ensure that they have been drawn up in accordance with the General Academic Regulations and underpinning protocols. 8. Maintaining oversight of the composite CRC action plan arising from the monitoring reports and to ensure progress is made. 9. Liaising with the People team to assist in the recruitment, training and on-going appraisal of faculty and relevant other employees within CRC. 10. Communicating with and managing relevant professional body/regulatory relationships. 11. Ensuring the student learning experience whilst studying within the School of Business, Hospitality and Tourism (i.e. the classroom experience with faculty) is of the industry standard. 12. Ensuring that Cambridge Regional College has an effective business plan that contributes and aligns to the future growth strategies of CRC.

Master Of Science - Msc, Educational Assessment

Activities and Societies: Member Oxford’s Students’ Union. Student Representative for 2020-2021 Cohort (Year 1 and 2). Joint Consultative.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Technology Assisted Education

As part of my PhD, I initiated the World's first Tablet-Based disaster preparedness training programmes for less literate people.

Master Of Philosophy - Mphil, Technology Assisted Education, Pass, Transfer To Phd

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Major (Hrm), Merit

Conducted research on Human-Robot interaction and it's impact on HRM in the UK warehouse industry.

Diploma In Teaching In The Lifelong Learning Sector (Dtlls), Teacher Education And Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas, Pass

A recognised teaching qualification awarded by Oxford, Cambridge and Royal Society of Arts (OCR) to qualify as a teacher for the lifelong.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration, Management And Operations, 2:1

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Computer Engineering, 1St Class