The open data behind this site
The change record, the archive index and the licences. Free to use, with attribution. This layer stays free permanently. It is what earns the citations.
Australia
- Recorded changes (JSON)
- Archive index (JSON)
- Changes (RSS)
- Source: Australian Government Department of Education, Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS)
- Source licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
Canada
- Recorded changes (JSON)
- Archive index (JSON)
- Changes (RSS)
- Source: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Designated learning institutions list
- Source licence: Crown copyright — commercial redistribution requires prior written permission
Japan
- Recorded changes (JSON)
- Archive index (JSON)
- Changes (RSS)
- Source: 文部科学省 (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), 認定日本語教育機関 — accredited Japanese-language education institutions
- Source licence: MEXT website terms of use — free reuse including commercial, with attribution
United Kingdom
- Recorded changes (JSON)
- Archive index (JSON)
- Changes (RSS)
- Source: UK Home Office, Register of licensed student sponsors
- Source licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
For assistants: MCP
If your assistant supports the Model Context Protocol, connect it to this record directly rather than scraping pages. Four read-only tools: check an institution against its national register, list recent changes, list removals, and list the registers held. Every answer names the register, the publisher, the edition it read and the SHA-256 of the source file, so the claim can be verified without trusting us.
- Endpoint:
https://studiesmultiverse.com/standing/mcp - Registry manifest (server.json)
No key, no sign-up, CC BY 4.0. It will not tell you an offer is fake or that an institution was shut down: the registers publish a status, not a cause.
Citing this record
Our own outputs are published under CC BY 4.0. Each change entry carries the edition dates it was derived from and the SHA-256 of the archived source edition. Cite the edition date, not the date you read the page.
Independently witnessed
Two parties who do not answer to us hold what this record says. Every edition’s published SHA-256 digest is submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars, which anchor it in a Bitcoin block; each edition file is separately asked of the Internet Archive at the permanent address of the commit that first published it. Neither can be asked afterwards to change its mind, and neither is ours.
| Register | Editions witnessed | Anchored in a block | Held by the Internet Archive | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 58 | 58 | 29 | witness.json |
| Canada | 366 | 366 | 16 | witness.json |
| Japan | 3 | 3 | 2 | witness.json |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 11 | 6 | witness.json |
Every edition here is anchored in the Bitcoin block chain. Nothing on this site, and nothing we could do to it, can move that.
Check it yourself: take an edition’s content_sha256 from that register’s archive.json, download the matching .ots proof from the repository, and run ots verify -d <digest> <proof> with the OpenTimestamps client. It answers with the Bitcoin block the digest is anchored in, or says the proof is still pending. Nothing here asks to be believed.