DOMAIN ACADEMY - Key Persons


Dr Manuel Vella Rago

Job Titles:
  • Chief Quality Assurance Officer
  • Domain Group As Chief Quality Assurance Officer
Manuel joined Domain Group as Chief Quality Assurance Officer in 2021. He has a keen interest in education and brings along extensive experience in Quality Assurance in the education sector, having served as the Head of Quality Assurance at the National Commission for Further & Higher Education (now the Malta Further & Higher Education Authority) from 2016 to 2019. He has taught various subjects to graduates and under-graduates as visiting lecturer at the University of Malta and other education institutions. Manuel holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Malta.

Dr. Herveen Singh

Job Titles:
  • Head of Institutional Effectiveness and Quality Assurance & Assistant Professor - Zayed University
Dr. Herveen Singh is the Head of Institutional Effectiveness and Quality Assurance at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. She is also an Assistant Professor with the College of Education at Zayed University. Her areas of research include quality assurance and accreditation; decolonial studies in educational leadership; faculty development; succession planning; organizational change management and; stakeholder engagement in educational leadership and schooling in urban contexts. Herveen has led curriculum development teams and developed programs at the Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral levels in Education, Policy and Business areas. Herveen has conducted quantitative and qualitative studies with Canadian and UAE school boards and organizations at local, provincial and federal levels. Specifically, she has led teams in the designing of curriculum, programming and assessment for federally funded research projects involving over 2,000 students from across the province of Ontario in Canada. She has also conducted district wide research for the second largest school board in Canada, involving over 1,500 government employees. Herveen is passionate about teaching and committed to teaching excellence. A noteworthy experience that demonstrates her commitment to teaching excellence is her role as the Assistant Director for the Office of Teaching Support at the University of Toronto. In this position she was responsible for the integration of the university's strategic framework and activities in supporting teaching excellence across the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto. Among other responsibilities, she delivered workshops on teaching and learning, seminars and participated on key committees across the university to ensure that teaching excellence was integrated throughout its policies and processes in regards to faculty promotions, evaluations and other pertinent areas related to raising teaching quality in all undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Toronto.

Dr. KIRILL MICALLEF STAFRACE

Dr Kirill is an established Sports and Exercise Medicine expert holding various positions in the Republic of Malta, namely, SEM Consultant Mater Dei Hospital, Medical Director Malta Football Association, Director Maltese Olympic Committee, Chairman of the Medical Commission of the Maltese Olympic Committee. Dr Kirill is also a Senior Lecturer in Sports Science and Sports and Exercise Medicine at the University of Malta. Until recently, he was Vice President of the European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations and Head of the Sports Medicine Section within The Presidential Guard of the UAE Armed Forces. Dr Kirill's areas of expertise, which he has presented and published widely, are Pre-exercise Screening, Exercise Prescription, Conservative Management of MSK Issues, Active aging and Medico-legal affair and Esports Medicine. Over the decades, Kirill has organized, managed, accompanied and enjoyed major heartbreaks and joyous moments with Team Malta during Olympic, Commonwealth and Mediterranean Games.

Miraide Gatt

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
Just after graduating from her post-secondary education, Miraide joined the civil services as PA to one of the sectional managers. In 1995 she co-founded Computer Domain which was considered a catalyst for ICT training in Malta. Throughout the past years, Computer Domain evolved into a group of companies under the name of Domain Group which also included Domain Academy. In 2008, Domain Academy was instituted as a Higher Education Institution with the intent of offering Diplomas and Degree programmes in various disciplines. Throughout all these years Miraide accumulated a wealth of knowledge and valuable experience in successfully managing this Group of companies. She is the driving force behind the Institution's focus-oriented workforce which is aligned to the Group's corporate values and its commitment to reach its targets and objectives. Central to Domain Academy's objectives is that of continuing to provide new career opportunities for the students and to do so whilst assisting every student individually, commencing at registration to graduation, and beyond. Miraide is also active in the voluntary sector and she chairs Domain's Group Social & Corporate Responsibility committee.

Mr Eric Mangion

Job Titles:
  • Chief Academic Officer
Eric joined Domain's Group in 2011 as a Senior Lecturer for the ICT programmes within the Faculty Department. He was promoted as Academic Director in 2016 and subsequently took over the role of Chief Academic Officer in 2020. Eric is now responsible from management of the Institution as well as the Business Development with the Group's International Academic Partners. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Communications and Computer Engineering from the University of Malta.

Mr Evtim Borisov

Job Titles:
  • Design & Marketing Office

Mr John Sciberras

Job Titles:
  • EU Relationship & Internship Office

Mr Robert Darmanin - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operations Officer
  • Domain Group in 2011 As Finance Executive
Robert first joined Domain Group in 2011 as Finance Executive, and in 2014 he was appointed Chief Financial Officer. In 2020, he became Domain Group's Chief Operations Officer, taking the overall responsibility for the Group's Strategy & Operations, International Affairs as well as the line management of the Finance and Human Resources functions. Robert holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration awarded by the University of Derby and a PGDip in Strategic Management & Leadership by Edexcel BTEC.

Mr Simone Golzio

Job Titles:
  • Student Welfare & Operations Office

Ms Graziella Camilleri

Job Titles:
  • Registrar

Ms Heather Costa

Job Titles:
  • Student Recruitment Office