PhD Digital and Dual-Pathway Higher Education
Doctoral inquiry into one academic standard across campus and tuition-free online—research, not a professional licence.
Dyplom nadawany na mocy polskiej ustawy o szkolnictwie wyższym z suplementem ECTS.
Złóż podanieOpis i cele kształcenia
Doctoral education in this field fails when it becomes a collection of ed-tech evaluations with no theory of the award. This PhD starts with dual-pathway parity as a researchable object: assessment, library licences, identity checking, storm continuity, and the political economy of tuition-free online beside a campus in a capital city. Candidates may be campus-based in Warsaw or primarily remote; the doctorate itself must exemplify the standard it studies. Vivas are online-capable and recorded under published rules. Faculty will not accept a thesis that treats ‘online’ as automatically inferior or automatically innovative. The award is a research PhD. It is not QAA employment, not OfS, not GTCS. Capstone is the thesis and viva, aligned with stated faculty areas: dual-pathway quality, digital assessment integrity, Polish HE policy, and related inquiries. Dual-pathway candidature logistics must not become a lighter doctorate: the viva standard is one standard. IU International University of Applied Sciences will not use QAA logos or promise a quality-agency post. Candidates study library parity, identity-checked assessment, storm continuity, and the political economy of tuition-free online beside an Warsaw campus, with ethics that refuse covert student surveillance as a method. PhD Digital and Dual-Pathway Higher Education is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 3–4 years, and the credit total is 60. Students move from The Award as Object: Dual-Pathway Theory through The Award as Object: Dual-Pathway Theory; UK and Polish HE Policy Literacy for Researchers; Research Ethics, Identity, and Remote Participation; Qualitative Inquiry in Universities as Organisations; Quantitative and Mixed Evidence of Parity; Document, Legal, and Policy Analysis, and finish on Confirmation and Progression. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students design a short sequence for a named group of learners and the criteria that would mark it fairly. Reading is a curriculum extract, an assessment specification, and an evaluation summary. The artefact a marker expects is a plan with outcomes, a task, criteria, and a note on bias. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Produce an original thesis on digital and/or dual-pathway higher education Defend methods in a timezone-aware viva Situate Polish and UK policy without claiming agency staff status Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. This course does not confer a teaching licence, QTS, or equivalent registration. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
Dyplom ukończenia studiów wydaje IU Międzynarodowy Uniwersytet Nauk Stosowanych z siedzibą w Warszawie. Kształcenie odbywa się w oparciu o polskie i europejskie standardy akademickie.

Struktura modułów i program nauczania
Program obejmuje 60 punktów ECTS zorganizowanych w moduły semestralne:
The Award as Object: Dual-Pathway Theory
UK and Polish HE Policy Literacy for Researchers
Research Ethics, Identity, and Remote Participation
Qualitative Inquiry in Universities as Organisations
Quantitative and Mixed Evidence of Parity
Document, Legal, and Policy Analysis
Assessment Integrity and Generative AI
Library Licences and Resource Justice
Forma kształcenia i zaliczenia
Tryb Online
Zajęcia asynchroniczne na uczelnianej platformie LMS, cyfrowe materiały dydaktyczne, seminaria z wykładowcami oraz egzaminy online.
Tryb Stacjonarny (Warsaw)
Wykłady i seminaria w salach wykładowych przy ul. Prostej 20 w Warszawie, bezpośredni kontakt z kadrą naukową i laboratoria.


Perspektywy zawodowe absolwentów
- Higher-education researcher
- Academic (research and teaching) after competitive appointment—not conferred by the PhD alone
- Policy analyst (HE digital and quality)
- Institutional research lead
- Doctoral-trained quality or digital-education specialist
Kampus w Warszawie i zaplecze akademickie
Siedziba uczelni mieści się przy ul. Prostej 20 w Warszawie — w samym sercu stolicy Polski. Studenci stacjonarni korzystają z nowoczesnej infrastruktury dydaktycznej, a studenci online z pełnego wsparcia cyfrowego.

Główny gmach akademicki przy ul. Prostej 20 w Warszawie.

Dziedziniec uniwersytecki i przestrzenie seminaryjne.

Infrastruktura dydaktyczna i laboratoria wydziałowe.

Uznawalność dyplomu, ramy NAWA i akredytacja EDINAC
Dyplom IU Międzynarodowego Uniwersytetu Nauk Stosowanych wydawany jest zgodnie z polską ustawą o szkolnictwie wyższym i Europejskim Obszarem Szkolnictwa Wyższego (Bologna / ECTS). Ramy międzynarodowej mobilności akademickiej wspierane są przez NAWA (Narodową Agencję Wymiany Akademickiej) oraz sieć ENIC-NARIC. Ponadto uczelnia posiada pełną międzynarodową akredytację EDINAC (nr ref: EIAC/QA/PL/2000-IU) z kryptograficzną weryfikacją dyplomów na edinac.org.
