Legal basis
The rules for conducting midterm evaluation are regulated by the provisions:
1. Art. 202-203 of the Act of 20 July 2018 – Law on Higher Education and Science (consolidated text Journal of Laws 2023, item 742)
Art. 202.
1. The doctoral student, in agreement with the supervisor(s), develops an individual research plan which includes, in particular, a schedule for preparing the doctoral dissertation, and submits it to the entity conducting the doctoral school within 12 months from the start of the education.
In the case of appointing an auxiliary supervisor, the plan is submitted after it has been reviewed by that supervisor.
2. The implementation of the plan is subject to midterm evaluation halfway through the education period specified in the education program, and in the case of a 6-semester education, during the fourth semester.
3. The midterm evaluation concludes with a positive or negative result. The evaluation result, along with its justification, is made public.
4. The midterm evaluation is carried out by a committee composed of three individuals, including at least one person holding a post-doctoral degree or the title of professor in the discipline for which the doctoral dissertation is being prepared, employed outside the entity conducting the doctoral school, or a person referred to in Art. 190, paragraph 5. The supervisor and auxiliary supervisor cannot be members of the committee.
5. The person employed outside the entity conducting the doctoral school and serving on the committee is entitled to a remuneration equal to 20% of a professor’s salary.
Art. 203.
1. The doctoral student is removed from the list of doctoral students in the following cases:
- a negative result of the midterm evaluation;
- failure to submit the doctoral dissertation within the deadline specified in the individual research plan;
- resignation from the education;
- failure to commence the education;
- violation of the prohibition referred to in Art. 200, paragraph 7;
- disciplinary punishment of expulsion from the doctoral school.
1a. In the proceedings regarding the removal of a doctoral student from the list of doctoral students, in the case of a breach of the prohibition referred to in Article 200, paragraph 7, the doctoral student shall be required to submit, within a period not shorter than 30 days of the receipt of the request, a resignation from education at another doctoral school.
2. The doctoral student may be removed from the list of doctoral students in the following cases:
- unsatisfactory progress in preparing the doctoral dissertation;
- failure to fulfill the obligations referred to in Art. 207.
3. The removal from the list of doctoral students is done by means of an administrative decision. An application for reconsideration of the case can be submitted against the decision.
2. § 7 of Resolution No. 31/2023 of the Senate of Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce dated April 27, 2023, on the adoption of the Regulations of the Doctoral School of Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce,
