Uk University fees for expat students

[wawa]

Our daughter has been living here with us for the past 2 years. If she decides to go a UK uni after A levels this year, will we have to pay international student fees? We still have our house in the UK. She is 18. Thanks for replies.

[Yep..]

Haven't done this myself but know plenty of UWC parents that have.

Whether or not you get home status is up to the individual university.  You need to persuade the uni that you are only over here temporarily due to work and have always had the intention of going back to the UK to live.  There are no hard and fast rules but the kind of 'proof' friends have had to give are:

Home in UK
Continued National Insurance contributions
Regular annual visits home for the holidays (keep your boarding passes)
Temporary contract stating the company will relocate you back to UK at end of set period

Having said that, I know a family who had none of the above except the regular visits home and are PR here and have lived here 15 years, who got home status for their three children.

Have you looked at the difference between home status and international fees now?  Not much of a difference.

[IT IS A BIT]

If your daughter is 18 and going to uni in Sept/Oct of this year she should have applied by now.

[overseas fees]

I've got lots of friends who've lived here (and elsewhere) and their kids have gone to uni back in the UK without having to pay overseas fees.

They've pretty much done what Yep says, but I'm not sure if they did the boarding pass thing.

I think you just have to make it clear to them that the UK is your home and always will be - if your host country decided not to renew your work permit then you'd have to go back to the UK no matter how long you had lived away.

We'll be in that situation too in a few years and the way I look at it is that the overseas fees don't seem to be much different to what we're paying for international school here anyway - it'd be annoying to have to pay them but if it comes to that, we'll just have to do it.

[Dr. Phil]

The way things are going all students will have to pay fees unless, as is the case now, you live in Wales or Scotland. In Scotland tuition is free, so are prescriptions and the life-saving drugs required to help cancer sufferers which are too expensive to be given to the English.

Now there's the rub. 

Who would live in such a backward country full of ingrates with big chips on their shoulders. Who would live amongst the oppressive peoples of the Holy Roman Empire brainless cretins, bigots, always bitching and complaining?

Perhaps soon we will have rid of them and we can claim England back for the English.

For all of "their oil", we still subsidize the b@@@@@ds. 

[fleas]

...and a Happy 2012 to you too, Dr Phil..does nobody love you still?

[beatrice b]

with so much competition, your better off paying for uni. there will be a bigger chance of getting in because of the $$$ you pay! Nowadays, you get a student loan which you have to pay back, its no longer free

[Jimmy1978]

Well a friend's daughter went back to UK for Uni, and she entered using her British passport which meant she meant local fees as supposed to overseas student fees (3x higher). They took a student loan from one of local banks, POSB I think... rather than a British bank because they're based here and when the time came to pay them back, it would be easier. I wonder if the rates are cheaper too..

[depends]

our daughter  lived here since she was 5 and we were denied home fees

[SwingsNRoundabouts]

One friend's son, born in Uk, both UK parents, UK Citizen, pays overseas fees.

Another friend's son, born in SIng, both UK parents, UK citizen, has been granted Home Status.

It is a freaking lottery. Good luck to us all!

[Dr. Phil]

If I were Singaporean dad I'd invest in a home in Scotland or Wales and send the litter across well in advance to establish a beachhead. Seriously there are some beautiful homes set in stunning landscapes for the price of an HDB.
In Scotland and Wales students do not pay University fees.
Also when you are old and ailing, or young and unexpectedly ill, expensive drugs denied in England, are available for free.

[Clarification]

Dr Phil - The Welsh do pay for their university courses.  It's just Scotland that is free.

If you look at the home v international fees now there isn't a huge difference. For example Warwick uni - home fees $9k, international fees $13,800k.  Not really worth moving back home just for that, especially if your take home pay here is considerably more than it would be in the UK.

[CostsMoreHere]

The cost of living for British expats in Singapore is a lot more expensive than in the UK. Period. Never mind the supposedly lower tax here. Everything else costs a heck of a lot more here. Public school fees are not the issue either, as we pay almost the same amount here for a jumped up state school.

[NOO]

Clarification - Welsh student fees are subsided by the Welsh Assembly