Mai Studies governance

Leadership and directorates.

Mai Studies is run as an academy: an academic chair, five directorates and one published rule that every course must be original or properly licensed.

MAI

Office of the Chair

Muhammad Asim Iqbal

B.Com, M.Com, MBA, FCCA

Chairman & Vice Chairman

Chairs the academic board of Mai Studies, owns the rights and originality rule for all published material, and holds every directorate post until each office is separately appointed.

The five directorates

Each directorate has a named remit and its own controls inside the administration console. Posts not yet separately appointed are held by the Chair.

Directorate of Courses & Curriculum

Director of Courses

Owns the curriculum: faculties, pathways, programmes, modules, lessons, assessments and pass marks.

  • Approve and publish programmes after review
  • Maintain module, lesson and assessment quality
  • Keep course codes and the public registry accurate

Currently held by the Chair

Directorate of Admissions & Enrolment

Director of Admissions

Owns the learner journey from application to classroom allocation, including partner and sponsor applications.

  • Review enrolments and classroom allocation
  • Assess institutional and sponsor partnership applications
  • Maintain cohort capacity and timetabling records

Currently held by the Chair

Directorate of Student Support & Welfare

Director of Student Support

Owns learner help: study skills, technical assistance, accessibility, tutor questions and wellbeing signposting.

  • Triage and answer student support requests
  • Maintain accessibility and study-skills guidance
  • Escalate welfare concerns and complaints

Currently held by the Chair

Directorate of Compliance, Rights & Data

Director of Compliance

Owns originality, copyright, licensing evidence, UK GDPR data requests and takedown handling.

  • Verify course rights and licence evidence before publication
  • Handle data access, correction and erasure requests
  • Investigate takedown and infringement reports

Currently held by the Chair

Directorate of Membership & Subscriptions

Director of Subscriptions

Owns membership plans, subscriber benefits such as recorded lesson narration, renewals and billing records.

  • Maintain membership plans and renewal records
  • Grant or withdraw subscriber benefits
  • Prepare for automated billing and renewals

Currently held by the Chair

How decisions are recorded

Programmes are drafted, reviewed for originality and licensing, then published by the courses directorate. Mai Studies is an independent learning provider: its courses and completion records are professional learning records, not regulated qualifications, degrees or externally accredited awards.