The Quality Assurance (QA) department was formed as part of a strategic initiative to manage BIBF’s unprecedented growth in recent years and for upholding the organization’s vision, mission and values. The primary objectives of QA include formulating, maintaining and enhancing best practices in all aspects of BIBF. As an institute of repute, BIBF aims to continuously deliver programs of high quality and ensures that such standards are maintained across offerings through all its Centers.

The QA department has been created in consultation with ifs School of Finance and is based on the structure of Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), another UK entity.

The QA department at BIBF has formulated an Academic Infrastructure (AI) which is a set of internationally-accepted benchmarks that provides all Centers with reference points for setting, describing and assuring quality and standards for their programs. Academic Infrastructure is composed of four ‘pillars’ - Code of Practice (COP), Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ), Subject Benchmark Statements and Program Specifications.

An awareness and implementation of explicit policies and practices by all faculty, staff and Management is created by QA. The department uses a peer review process where teams of academics/professionals conduct reviews of BIBF programs. Apart from BIBF Management and senior faculty members, select members are drawn from Bahrain’s financial services industry. Several committees and boards have been formed with external and student representation to create a framework that is fair, transparent and representative of the various stakeholders of BIBF. All programs are monitored through an annual academic review process at course/subject level.

Dr. Subhadra Ganguli Quality Assurance Manager Email: sganguli@bibf.com Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Riverside, USA Dr. Subhadra Ganguli has joined BIBF in September 2004 as an instructor in the Center of Banking. Subhadra has worked as a full-time lecturer in Economics in different colleges (including Presidency College) in India prior to her studies in the USA. Dr. Ganguli has worked in the University of California as a Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Economics courses during 1998-2003. She has also taught at the Summer School in the University of California as a lecturer in Economics. Dr. Ganguli worked with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) in Washington D.C.tensively during her Ph.D. program during 2001-2002 as a student volunteer as well as the Instituto Nacional de Ecologia (INE) of the Government of Mexico at Mexico City during the summer of 2002 as part of her dissertation research.