London School of International Business ?

Regulated qualifications.
Some LSIB Diplomas are awarded by the OTHM. (Regulated qualifications) These qualifications can have academic credit value as well.

https://www.othm.org.uk/quality-standards.html

The credit awarded can be used toward a degree in the UK Universities.
BTW the OTHM approved to deliver MBA Top-up Qualification from the University of Chichester a public university located in West Sussex, England, which became a university in 2005.

In the UK Bachelors, degrees are granted with a total of 3-4 years of study (180 – 240 ECTS or UK credit 360 to 480)

One academic year corresponds to 60 ECTS credits that are normally equivalent to 1500–1800 hours of total workload, irrespective of standard or qualification type. ECTS credits are used to facilitate transfer and progression throughout the Union.

London School of International Business Level 5 diploma issued by OTHM has 120 ECTS.
This credit may be transferred to a UK university BS degree.
Approximately 60 ECTS credit units per year.
Level 4 - up to 60 ECTS
Level - 5 up to 120 ECTS
Level 6 - Honours degree 3-year bachelor's degree 180, a graduate diploma in IT, or BEng for example.
Level 7 - Post-Bachelors degree - post-graduate diploma, Masters degree.

MEng (1 ECTS = 2 UK credits) is equivalent to a three-year 360 credit Bachelors's degree, plus 120 credits at the Masters's level.

 

Johann, you've said: "I note that University of Dąbrowa Górnicza has about SIXTY dual-award degree programs besides their short-lived arrangement with the Swiss school. That many? Always raises a flag!"

Could you please provide the evidence for the claim that they are running sixty dual degree award programs? What are the names of the foreign partner institutions? Do you have any evidence that they are actual Polish degree programs (Bachelor's, Master's or Doctorate) as opposed to the MBA/DBA postgraduate qualifications? If they are conducting any degree studies in fully online format for foreigners (without any travel requirements and exams in Poland), it would be in violation of Polish law.

 

Here's a rare Polish institution of higher learning that has something approaching this kind of a degree partnership. I found it online through a search. However, you still need to travel to Poland for the onsite presentations and engage in additional studies! I am not aware of any institutions that provide Polish degrees in 100 percent online format to people residing outside of Poland. Remember that I am not counting MBAs and DBAs due to their non-degree nature. As far as I know, even the truly controversial Swiss agreement dealt with "studia podyplomowe" instead of real degrees, since they partnered up for the DBA. The degree itself may have been granted by the Swiss canton school, or the third Ukrainian partner university, although even that is unclear.

Link: http://www.mastradnologias.com/en/programme-outline.php
Link#2: https://www.ateneum.edu.pl/

 

I did mention it first, but sorry, I didn't mean it to be my favourite. I put Poland on the list for:

(1) University of Dąbrowa Górnicza's sixty-odd partnerships and validation schemes with other Universities, some of who-knows-what repute, outside Poland.
(2) Warsaw Management University's offer of certificates/doctoral-looking papers to foreigners, involving degrees that can't be granted in Poland
(3) Some expat. American rascals who were remotely controlling the distance-ed division of a Nicaraguan University - and awarding unauthorized degrees - From Poland and Latvia. And yes - the fact it took place in Poland has nothing to do with Polish corruption.

I think that's enough to make the list - not enough to be my favourite though. And yes - most (not all) of it has nothing to do with PhDs. Other doctorates - yes.

 

My apologies. IIRC it was a school in Costa Rica that was involved.

 

My favorite example continues to be the University of Wales system that was caught validating degrees for a number of shady outfits. All those agreements were eventually dropped but not before the entire UWales system broke up into it's constituent pieces. The University of Wales-Lampeter became Trinity
St. David University and it remains one of my favorite DL institutions.

https://uwtsd.ac.uk/

 

Mine, too. Over 200 overseas institutions, including Fazley College in Malaysia, run by Fazley Yakoob, a local pop star, a school run by a supermodel in Cambodia, and IIRC a large-ish distance Bible School in the Midwest that made unsuccessful runs at both RA and NA status here and had a previous couple of endorsement / validation sticker or what-have-you arrangements overseas, prior to The University of Wales validation scheme.

Not every day a consortium implodes, that has 800-year-old schools in it!