Study Abroad Programs Editing and Proofreading Services

A study abroad programme takes young adults, many of whom have never organised international travel alone, and places them in a country whose systems, laws and emergency services work differently from the ones they know. Most of them are fine. The programme's documentation exists for the ones who are not: the student who is hospitalised, arrested, assaulted, robbed of their documents, or has a mental health crisis eight time zones from their family — and for the parents who will ask, afterwards, what the students were told.

We edit what universities, programme providers and exchange organisations produce — pre-departure information and orientation material, health, safety and emergency guidance, insurance and healthcare access explanations, visa and legal status information, local law and cultural information, accommodation and host family material, academic credit and transcript information, cost disclosures and what is not included, code of conduct and disciplinary provisions abroad, mental health and support service information, incident and emergency procedures for staff, risk assessments for destinations, consent and emergency contact documentation, and reporting procedures for harassment and assault. Our editors work on material read by students who think none of it applies to them.

Pre-departure material is read badly, once, at the point of maximum excitement, which shapes how it must be written. Comprehensive documents covering every eventuality are skimmed and produce students who know a handbook exists. We write these so the small number of things that must be known before arrival are separated from everything else and stated as actions — the number to ring that is not the one they know from home, how to get treatment and what it will cost before insurance reimburses, what the police response to an assault report looks like there and what the programme will do, which medication they take is illegal at the border, and who to contact at 3am. We make the harassment and assault reporting route specific to that country and that programme rather than a link to the home institution's policy, because a student in distress needs a name and a number. And we write the section students actually read — what everyone gets wrong in the first fortnight — because attaching the serious information to the practical is what gets it in front of them.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including incident material and information about identifiable students. We are editors rather than travel, security, legal or clinical advisers, and we offer no view on destination risk, insurance adequacy, legal requirements or any incident. What we can do is make the material clear enough that a student remembers the parts that matter.