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Authors

Every article here carries a named byline. These are the people behind them, and how we work is set out in our editorial policy.

Anonymous advice about examinations, fees and visa money is worth very little. If nobody's name is on a piece, nobody is accountable for it being wrong — and on the subjects this site covers, wrong is expensive: a missed review window, a fee paid into the wrong account, a deposit that fails a holding period.

So every article is attributed to a named desk, each with a stated remit and a public page listing everything it has published. The bylines are honest about scope. Where a piece is reporting, it is written by the news desk; where it is scholarship or study-abroad guidance, it comes from the scholarships desk, which is the team that maintains the funding directory and checks each listing against the awarding body's own page.

What we will not do

We do not publish anonymously, we do not attribute writing to invented people, and we do not present generated text as though a person wrote it. Where a draft begins with a tool, a named editor is responsible for what is published — checking the claims, cutting the padding and adding what the tool could not know. That is a standard we hold ourselves to because we also sell writing tools, and it would be incoherent to sell something we were not willing to use responsibly.

Corrections

When we get something wrong we fix it on the page and say what changed, rather than editing quietly. If you have spotted an error, tell us — corrections are the first thing we act on, and our editorial policy sets out exactly how we handle them.