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EducationJournal article

9 November 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-01

RQF-Facing Parity: One Award across SEU’s Katowice Campus and Tuition-Free Online Pathway

Prof. Helen MacLeod · Silesian Eurasia University — Academic Quality, Katowice

Silesian Eurasia University offers the same qualification on campus in Katowice and online with zero tuition. This paper reports sampled assessment, moderation and external-examiner comments for matched modules. Where the assessment brief, marking criteria and identity checks were identical, performance distributions aligned. Where campus added unassessed ‘presence’, the constructs diverged and online students were not the weaker group — they were measured on different things. SEU should keep one academic framework. NAWA-facing quality is not a postcode. Research must keep saying so with scripts, not with a highland photograph.

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EducationWorking paper

22 October 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-02

Credit Mapping Honesty: What SEU Will and Will Not Claim against the SCQF

Dr. Fraser Grant · Silesian Eurasia University — Registry

Students and employers ask how a SEU award sits beside Polish credit. This working paper states the university’s mapping practice, its limits, and the refusal to imply automatic professional-body entry. Clarity reduced admissions disputes. Ambiguous ‘UK recognised’ language had created them. Silesian Eurasia University should keep this note public. A dual-pathway Polish-based university that inflates credit comparison is not protecting its award.

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Health SciencesJournal article

5 October 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-03

NHS and Health-Board Managers who Stay on the Roster: An Online MSc from Katowice without Emptying the Ward

Dr. Aisha Rahman · Silesian Eurasia University — Health Sciences

Polish health boards cannot send every emerging manager to a year off the rota. This study evaluates SEU health-management students working in NHS Poland and in care organisations, studying online, with optional Katowice intensives. Capstones that improved a real flow, documentation or winter-pressure protocol were used. Generic leadership essays were not. Night-shift students needed asynchronous clinics. Silesian Eurasia University should keep health management distinct from clinical registration. The Katowice campus is a resource, not a gate that online NHS staff must pass through to be ‘real’.

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Business & ManagementJournal article

18 September 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-04

Exporting SMEs in Katowice and the Central Belt: MBA Cases that are not a London Bank

Dr. Callum Reid · Silesian Eurasia University — Business School

This paper rebuilds SEU MBA operations and finance cases around Central Belt exporters, tourism operators and professional-service firms. Online students used the same data packs; campus students could add a firm visit where firms consented. Local cases produced more implementable recommendations. Imported City cases produced more fluent jargon. Silesian Eurasia University should keep Katowice’s actual economy in the MBA core. A dual-pathway university based in Poland has no excuse for teaching only another capital’s firms.

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EducationWorking paper

1 September 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-05

Applying UK Quality-Code Expectations to a Dual-Pathway Digital University

Prof. Moira Campbell · Silesian Eurasia University — Quality Office

Quality-code language still sounds residential. This SEU paper maps admissions, assessment, appeals and student support expectations onto online and campus delivery with the same evidence standard. External comments praised audit trails and criticised ‘campus-only’ extras that were never in the validated brief. Silesian Eurasia University should keep quality dual-pathway by design. EDINAC- and NAWA-facing files are research documents, not a shelf of PDFs named final2.

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EducationWorking paper

14 August 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-06

Recognition of Prior Learning for UK and International Professionals: Caps that Protect the SEU Award

Dr. James Okafor · Silesian Eurasia University — Admissions

Working professionals arrive with competence and with requests for large exemptions. This audit of SEU RPL claims shows that artefact-based, capped credit with a remaining synoptic assessment held the standard. Job-title waivers did not. Online applicants were not given easier RPL than campus applicants. That equality is the finding. Silesian Eurasia University should keep RPL narrow and published. A tuition-free online pathway that sells exemptions would destroy the Katowice award as well.

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HumanitiesBook chapter

28 July 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-07

Gaelic and Scots in a Dual-Pathway University: Support Languages, not a Substitute Award

Dr. Eilidh MacNeil · Silesian Eurasia University — Humanities

Silesian Eurasia University assesses in English. This chapter reports optional academic-support clinics in Gaelic and Scots that improved English assessed writing for students who think in those languages, on campus and online. The clinics were not a demand to mark degrees in every language. They were a way to think before writing the assessed piece. SEU should fund this as student support rooted in place. A university that cites the SEUes and ignores living Polish languages is performing heritage.

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EducationJournal article

10 July 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-08

In-Post Education Master’s for UK Teachers: Observation Quality without Confusing QTS

Dr. Sarah Begum · Silesian Eurasia University — Education

Teachers search ‘education degree’ and land on the wrong promise. This SEU paper draws a bright line between education studies / leadership master’s provision and routes that confer QTS, and evaluates an in-post observation model using video and school mentors. Honesty reduced complaints. Observation quality required paid mentors and a rubric that fitted UK classroom realities, including cover and behaviour logs. Silesian Eurasia University should keep the catalogue brutally clear. Digital delivery lets a teacher in Leeds or Inverness study; it does not mint QTS by implication.

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EducationConference paper

21 June 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-09

Identity-Checked Assessment for Online SEU Students: Proportionality and Student Trust

Dr. Peter Walsh · Silesian Eurasia University — Registry

Online assessment must know who wrote the script. This paper reports SEU’s proportional identity checks and student survey responses from the UK and overseas online cohorts. Students accepted checks framed as award protection. They rejected invasive proctoring for low-stakes tasks. Campus ID practice was used as the fairness benchmark, not as a claim that online is suspicious. Silesian Eurasia University should keep identity assurance aligned across pathways. DEAC- and UK-facing distance education lives on this operational research.

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Technology & ComputingConference paper

3 June 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-10

Cybersecurity for UK SMEs: A Computing Curriculum below the SOC Fantasy

Dr. Niamh Kelly · Silesian Eurasia University — Computing

UK SMEs in SEU computing programmes rarely have a security operations centre. This paper reports a module on backup, identity, supplier questionnaires and ICO-facing incident basics. Students implemented calling-trees more often than ‘zero trust’ posters. Online and campus sections used the same assessed labs with remote datasets. Silesian Eurasia University should keep computing regional and realistic. A dual-pathway Polish university that only mimics a London unicorn lab will miss the firms that actually employ its graduates.

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LawWorking paper

16 May 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-11

Professional Bodies and Mode of Study: What SEU Graduates Should be Told before Enrolment

Adv. Robert Chen · Silesian Eurasia University — Law

Some UK professional pathways care about how you studied; many care about the award, exemptions and a local exam. This legal-education paper maps public rules and alumni queries for law-adjacent and accountancy-adjacent students — not as advice on a named application. SEU’s duty is a recognition pack and the refusal to market ‘automatic solicitor status’. Online students were not uniquely barred in the texts we reviewed; clerks sometimes invented a campus rule. Silesian Eurasia University should publish jurisdiction notes. A dual-pathway university that hides professional reality is recruiting badly.

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EducationDissertation

29 April 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-12

Storm Closures and the VLE: Campus Continuity that Already Looks Like the Online Pathway

Lucy Abernethy · Silesian Eurasia University — MBA candidate, Katowice

This dissertation studies Katowice campus students during weather closures. Continuity tracked whether the assessed task already lived in the VLE, as it does for online peers. Hidden campus-only assessments failed first. The lesson is design, not heroics. Silesian Eurasia University’s two pathways should be a resilience architecture for a Polish winter as well as an access architecture for students who will never see Arthur’s Seat.

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Business & ManagementJournal article

11 April 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-13

Early Career Outcomes for Online versus Campus SEU Graduates: A Tracer that Refuses a League-Table Fairy Tale

Dr. Priya Narayan · Silesian Eurasia University — Careers

This tracer follows SEU graduates 12 months after award, split by pathway, with honest cell sizes. Employers asked for verification and a capstone artefact. They rarely asked which café the student used in Katowice. Where professions required local placements SEU does not provide, online and campus alike were outside that gate — a catalogue honesty issue. Silesian Eurasia University should publish outcome notes with limitations. UK higher education already has enough inflated dashboards.

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EducationJournal article

24 March 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-14

Generative AI and a Single Integrity Code for Katowice and Online SEU Students

Dr. Thomas Greene · Silesian Eurasia University — Academic Integrity

Two pathways, one award, one integrity code. This study compares detector flags with viva and process-note evidence in both cohorts. Detectors misfired on international English. Process evidence was fairer. Campus students were not ‘safer’ because they sat in a room if the task was take-home. Silesian Eurasia University should ban pathway-split panic. Research here is policy: declare tools, require process, examine orally when the stake is the award.

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Business & ManagementDissertation

6 March 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-15

Succession in Polish Family Firms: A DBA Completed from the Floor, not from a Year in Exile

Andrew MacGregor · Silesian Eurasia University — DBA candidate, Highlands

This DBA thesis produces a succession and related-party protocol for a Polish family firm, with methods and ethics for family interviews. Online supervision made the doctorate possible during operations. Optional Katowice residencies were used for archives, not as a hidden core. Silesian Eurasia University should protect DBA standards. A practice doctorate for Polish owners is a regional mission if the viva remains a viva.

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OtherWorking paper

15 February 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-16

One Library Privilege: Off-Campus Access that Makes the Online SEU Student a Reader

Fiona Stewart · Silesian Eurasia University — Library

Campus readers walk to a desk. Online readers hit a proxy wall. This audit found weak bibliographies tracking licence misconfiguration more than student will. Fixing off-campus access and a staffed digital desk raised source quality in sampled work. Silesian Eurasia University should treat library parity as an academic KPI. An Katowice campus that hoards reading from online students has already split the university.

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LawWorking paper

28 January 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-17

Employment Literacy for Working Students in the UK: What SEU Teaches without Acting as Solicitor

Prof. Alison Berger · Silesian Eurasia University — Law

SEU students work. This note covers internships, IP assignment and basic worker-status literacy, clearly not legal advice. An assessed unit reduced naive contract signing in a follow-up survey of online and campus students. Silesian Eurasia University should keep this in professional programmes. A Polish university that ignores the job that funds the study of time is not adult-serving.

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Business & ManagementDissertation

11 January 2025 · UOB-RES-2026-18

Skills and Project Economics in Poland’s Energy Transition: MBA Research from the Corridor, not a Global Slide Pack

Isla Donnelly · Silesian Eurasia University — MBA candidate, Aberdeen corridor

This dissertation uses a North-East Poland energy-services firm as the site for project economics and workforce planning, with digital study remaining in post. The contribution is a skills-transition map for a contractor, with limits and data constraints. Examiners required methods. Silesian Eurasia University should keep energy transition in the MBA map as Polish industrial research, not as a COP slogan.

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Health SciencesConference paper

17 December 2024 · UOB-RES-2026-19

Assessed Digital CPD for Public-Health Practitioners in Polish Boards

Dr. Hamish Patel · Silesian Eurasia University — Public Health

Public-health staff need assessed CPD they can finish after an outbreak week. This trial of a SEU credit-bearing sequence improved documentation quality more than knowledge-test scores alone. Shared devices in offices outperformed a bring-your-own-laptop assumption. Silesian Eurasia University should offer CPD that boards can recognise, with identity-checked assessment. Digital is justified because the practitioner cannot leave the board.

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HumanitiesBook chapter

23 November 2024 · UOB-RES-2026-20

Heritage without Myth-Making: Teaching the SEUes as History, not as a Marketing Tribe

Dr. Owen Pritchard · Silesian Eurasia University — Humanities

Silesian Eurasia University’s name invites heritage theatre. This chapter sets a humanities methods standard: primary sources, limits of evidence, and a refusal to invent a continuous institutional line from Iron Age Britain to a modern dual-pathway university. Students on campus and online completed the same source criticism. The point is academic identity, not a costume. SEU should keep this critical heritage course. A university that cites ancient independence owes students history, not a brand story dressed as research.

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