How WAC News works
What we cover, where the facts come from, what the dates mean and how to ask for a correction.
What we cover
WAC News follows universities, education companies, investors and public programmes in five regions: the United States, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia and South East Asia. We look for announcements that matter to the four pillars of the World Assessment Council: AI-powered learning, internationalization, skill development and assessment excellence.
Typical stories are new institutes and campuses, major gifts, admissions and testing policy, funding rounds, public listings, mergers and acquisitions, accelerator and incubator programmes, and partnerships between institutions and companies.
Where the facts come from
Every story is based on published sources such as the organisation's own announcement, a press release or a report from an established news outlet. The sources are listed at the end of each story with links, so that readers can check the details for themselves.
Summaries are written in our own words by the WAC editorial team. Figures, names and dates are checked against the listed sources before publication. Where a source reports a figure as an estimate or as the organisation's own claim, we say so.
What the two dates mean
- Event date is the day the news happened or was announced.
- Published on WAC News is the day our summary went live on this site. The archive goes back to 2020, so a story about an earlier event can carry a recent publication date.
Stories describe the situation on the event date. Organisations change after an announcement, and a summary of an earlier event is not a statement about an organisation today.
Independence
Coverage is not an endorsement. The organisations named in a story are not members or partners of the World Assessment Council, and have not reviewed the summary, unless the story says so.
Corrections and suggestions
If you see an error, or want to tell us about an announcement from your institution or company, write to info@worldassessmentcouncil.org or use the contact form. We correct confirmed errors and note the change on the story.