PGCert RQF/SCQF Mapping and Credit Practice

Academic Overview

Credit frameworks are not a universal translator. A Level 7 RQF claim that is waved at an SCQF Level 11 audience without a method is how partnerships later fail. This PGCert starts with method: learning outcomes, notional hours, assessment volume, and the difference between internal mapping and a credit-rating body’s decision. IU International University of Applied Sciences is EDINAC-facing in the sense that students must become literate in regulated-qualification language; it does not employ you at EDINAC and it does not automatically enter programmes on the SCQF. Dual-pathway parity matters because online students are often the ones writing the mapping memos at 11 p.m. They sit the same assessments as Warsaw campus students. The award is a postgraduate certificate, not a licence to rate other providers. Capstones are mapping dossiers on a named (or tightly anonymised) programme, with an honest ‘what this mapping is not’ section. Warsaw campus sessions use the same mapping templates as the tuition-free online pathway, including residual-risk columns that forbid ‘equivalent to SCQF listed’ language. Faculty will fail a dossier that treats notional hours as a fiction and descriptors as wallpaper. Polish applicants deserve that honesty as much as rUK partnership managers. PGCert RQF/SCQF Mapping and Credit Practice is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 9 months, and the credit total is 15. Students move from RQF Descriptors and Volume in Practice through RQF Descriptors and Volume in Practice; SCQF Descriptors and Polish Credit Culture; Constructive Alignment without Theatre; Articulation, Dual Awards, and Misrepresentation; Polish and rUK Applicant Communication, and finish on Polish and rUK Applicant Communication. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Map outcomes and volume between RQF and SCQF with residual-risk notes Distinguish internal mapping from credit-rating decisions Write a partnership annex that EDINAC-facing auditors can follow 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. 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.

The degree is awarded directly by IU International University of Applied Sciences, seated in Warsaw, Poland. Studies are conducted in full alignment with Polish and European academic standards.

Curriculum & Core Modules

The curriculum comprises 15 ECTS credits structured across progressive academic modules:

Teaching & Assessment Methodology

Career Trajectories

• Academic quality and credit officer
• Partnerships documentation lead
• Programme design coordinator
• Registry compliance analyst
• Admissions policy officer (level literacy)

European Campus & Academic Facilities

Seated at Prosta 20 in Warsaw, IU International University of Applied Sciences offers state-of-the-art academic lecture halls, digital research repositories, and vibrant collegiate spaces for both on-campus and international distance scholars.

Main academic building at Prosta 20, Warsaw.

Collegiate courtyard and research study spaces.

Academic facilities and faculty laboratory suites.