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Corrections
When StudyVisaHub publishes something that turns out to be wrong, it is changed and the change is recorded here: what was published, what it says now, and the date it changed. Nothing is quietly edited.
This register covers corrections to figures and statements that were published on this site. It runs newest first. Each entry names the page it affected and where the change is recorded, so anyone can check it rather than take our word for it.
The register opens on 30 August 2026, the date of a review that withdrew a body of published material at once. Corrections made before that date were not kept in a form that can be published honestly, so they are recorded here as not held rather than reconstructed.
The register
7 corrections. Most recent: 3 September 2026.
- Country visa data pages, machine-readable licence block
The licence and the creator named in our data markup were both wrong
What was wrong
The machine-readable rights block on each country page said the data was licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 and that StudyVisaHub created it. Neither is true. The Department of Home Affairs student visa dataset is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia, and the Department made the record. The block also pointed at a Home Affairs statistics landing page rather than the data.gov.au resource the data is actually loaded from.
What it says now
The Department of Home Affairs is named as the creator, StudyVisaHub as the publisher, the licence is Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia, and the source points at the data.gov.au dataset the pipeline loads.
Where this is recorded
Audit finding DATA-21. Recorded in the corrected block in src/app/(public)/country/[slug]/page.tsx.
A closed scholarship and an undated scholarship read the same
What was wrong
Listings with no published closing date and listings whose closing date had already passed both displayed "No deadline listed". A reader could not tell a scholarship that had closed from one whose closing date the provider has never published. Of the 136 active listings, 131 carry no closing date at all, so this affected most of the page.
What it says now
Three separate states, in their own words. Where the provider has not published a closing date, the listing says so. Where the published date has passed, the listing says it has closed and shows the date. A future date is shown as before.
Where this is recorded
Audit finding DATA-17. Recorded in src/app/(public)/scholarships/ScholarshipsClient.tsx.
Sorting by closing date put undated listings in an arbitrary order
What was wrong
When two listings both had no closing date, the sort treated each as coming after the other. With 131 undated listings that produced a large block of rows whose order was arbitrary and could change between loads.
What it says now
Two undated listings are treated as equal, so dated listings sort by date, undated listings follow them, and the order within that group is stable.
Where this is recorded
Audit finding DATA-17. Recorded in src/app/(public)/scholarships/ScholarshipsClient.tsx and src/lib/scholarships.ts.
A withdrawn classification still decided which countries were shown
What was wrong
A country appeared in the home page tables only if it had both a grant rate and a value in the country classification field that was withdrawn on 30 August 2026. The data load now records nothing in that field, so the test would have emptied the country tables entirely. A withdrawn judgement was still deciding what a reader could see.
What it says now
A country appears when there is a grant rate to show, and nothing else. Where no rate is held, the page says no grant rate data is available rather than quietly leaving the country out.
Where this is recorded
Audit finding DATA-03. Recorded in src/hooks/useHomepageDashboard.ts.
- Country pages, articles and tools across the site
We published a three-level country classification as though a government body issued it
What was wrong
Countries were labelled 1, 2 or 3 under a three-level classification, and that label was presented beside official grant rates and described in places as the Department of Home Affairs’ own classification. No Australian government body publishes such a classification. It was StudyVisaHub’s own inference, and several articles went further and treated it as an explanation of visa outcomes.
What it says now
The classification is gone from every page. The articles built on it were withdrawn. What remains is the official decision counts, with the number of decisions shown beside every rate, so a reader can see what the rate is made of.
Where this is recorded
Trust reset codes P0-01 and P1-02, in src/lib/trust/quarantine.ts and src/lib/blog/posts.ts. Stated on the methodology page under "No country risk rating".
Country pages stated document rules and causes we had no source for
What was wrong
Each country page carried a written passage asserting what paperwork that country’s applicants are asked for, and offering reasons for the movement in its published rate. No authoritative source was held for those claims, and the paperwork claims rested on the withdrawn classification.
What it says now
Those passages were removed rather than reworded. The country route now directs to the visa data pages, which carry the same official decision counts with the counts shown beside every rate.
Where this is recorded
Trust reset codes P0-01, P0-06 and P1-02. Recorded in src/app/(public)/country/[slug]/page.tsx.
- Course listings and the ranking page
We ranked courses on a quality judgement of our own
What was wrong
A published page described how StudyVisaHub assigns quality labels to courses and ranks them. A quality ranking is a judgement, not a source record and not a reproducible calculation, and documenting the judgement did not make it publishable.
What it says now
Course ordering is neutral and the rules for it are documented in the sources and methodology pages. The ranking page is withheld, and the links that pointed at it now point at those pages.
Where this is recorded
Trust reset code P1-08, in src/lib/trust/quarantine.ts.
Material withheld rather than corrected
Some published work could not be fixed by editing it. Where the problem was the claim itself, and not the wording around it, the page or article was withdrawn instead. A withdrawn address returns a plain gone response and is removed from the site map, and nothing behind it is deleted, so it can be reinstated if it is ever rewritten to a standard that holds.
Withdrawn material is not republished without a compliance review. That review is a separate step from a correction, and the two are deliberately not the same gate.
Reporting an error
If a figure here disagrees with the source it cites, the source wins. Send the page and the original publication to contact@studyvisahub.com.au. Reports are acknowledged within two business days, and a verified correction is published within five. A wrong attribution is treated on the same footing as a wrong number.
The formulas, boundaries and limits behind the figures are set out on the methodology page, and the sources themselves on sources and methodology.
Last reviewed: 3 September 2026. Entries are added on the date the change goes live, and a closed entry is never edited: a correction to a correction is added as a new entry.