University press offices are not writing for you. They are writing for deans, accreditation bodies, and research grant committees. The result is a stream of announcements that most students, parents, and curious readers bounce off immediately — packed with terms like “interdisciplinary translational research vectors” when what they mean is: a student built a cheaper way to treat eye disease.
SchoolNews.info was built to close that gap. We track announcements from universities across six countries, read the original statements, and write the actual story in plain English. What happened. Who it affects. What a prospective student should know about it.
We are not a social media aggregator. Every story we publish links directly to the original university newsroom or government scholarship portal. We credit and quote those sources on every page. If a story came from Harvard’s Gazette, we say so and link there. If it came from JAMB’s official bulletin, same thing. You should always be able to trace where we got our information.
What we cover
Our desks track four beats daily: university admissions calendars and cut-off mark changes; scholarship and fellowship openings — verified, with application links; student and graduate success stories that most newsrooms ignore; and university research breakthroughs, rewritten so a parent or school-leaver can understand what was actually discovered.
We currently publish editions covering institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Nigeria. Each country desk maintains its own index, organized by school.
Our editorial rules
Every article on this site follows three non-negotiable rules. First: no jargon. If a word requires a glossary entry to understand, we find a different word. Second: every claim links to a primary source. We do not write “experts say” or “according to reports.” We name the source. Third: if we make a factual error, we correct it visibly — with a date stamp and an explanation of what changed. We never quietly overwrite old text.
We are also completely transparent about what we are not. We are not the university. We summarize and rewrite; we do not generate original reporting or conduct on-campus interviews. You should always verify admission deadlines, scholarship amounts, and application requirements directly with the institution. We say this on every admissions story we publish.
What “layman” actually means here
It does not mean dumbed-down. It means written for someone intelligent who is not already inside the system. A parent in Lagos trying to understand UK postgraduate funding. A student in Tennessee figuring out whether a German university is free. A school counsellor in Abuja looking for legitimate scholarship deadlines their students can actually apply to.
Those are the people we write for. The dean already has staff for this.