Fee Status 2015

Fee Status

• EU – tuition fees only

• Home – loans for all things

• If they could be one or the other they could be strategic

• Student Number Control – for Home-EU only

• 2013 – unlimited numbers for high quality students – fixed for students with below AAB

• 2015 – unlimited except for NHS (Medicine, Diatetics, Nursing) and Teaching (Teaching Agency sets number)

• Overseas unlimited for English universities.

• Declining student numbers in the UK – increasing internationalisation

• Fee status determindes eligibility on the course and acoomodation.

• Low fee status – Home-UE, Equivalent or Lower Qualification ELQ

• High fee status – Overseas, Home Chnn

• Ordinarily resident

• Settled – both ordinarily resident in the UK and no immigration restriction on length of stay

• Country of domicile, – country where permanent home is located.

• Switzerland

• France

• New countries, changing visa systems etc

• Unis must make their best judement.

• UCAS INFO –

• home address, country of birth, country of permanent residence, nationality – 2 can be declared, residence category, date of first entry into UK

• How the unis assess fee status –

• Residency – home address, school address and years of study, country of permanent residence, nationaily, personal statement

• Non standard scenarios – dual nationals, Swiss national, EEA family members

• Swiss nationals – often treated as overseas, but then can be Home-EU nearer the time (show residence…ordinarily resident in EEA for 3 years before 1^st day of 1^st academic year)

• Temporary absence

• If you think a university is making a mistake, mention if uni is only one to assess the student as particular fee status.

Colleague’s notes

• Understanding Fee Status

• Competition on courses may effect students’ motivations to be classified one way or another
  • For ex, with med, intl kids would rather not be classified overseas, but for history, in contrast, it is more competitive for domestic/EU kids… and yet the COST!
• Students’ motivation should not effect students’ disclosure of information
• Student Number Controls (SNC) has been slowly phased out
  • Whereas it was fixed in 2011, it is now only fixed for NHS (med) & teaching
• Why is fee status important? Eligibility & accommodation (could be an advantage to be intl)
• Terms & definitions (uni’s will vary in their decisions, fees, etc):
  • Low fee status – home, EU, equivalent or lower qualification
  • High fee status – overseas or home Channel Islands
  • Ordinarily resident – you have habitually, normally, and lawfully resided in that area from choice
  • Settled – being both ordinarily resident in the UK and without an immigration restriction on the length of your stay in the UK
  • Country of domicile – country where permanent home is located
• Each university makes their own assessment (changing visa systems, varied circumstances)
• See photos from PPT
• Time spent in education (boarding school or prior school/uni) in the UK does NOT count toward residency, though that’s not necessarily true for those at boarding schools overseas
• If the student has unlimited leave to remain in the UK (even on diplomatic status) then they could be eligible for domestic fees
• Common non-standard scenarios:

• Best resource: www.ukcisa.org.uk (yu-kee-zah)
• Counsellor advised to meet with each student prior to confirming the firm/insurance choices to check on availability on course, knock on effect (fees, funding), other considerations
• The earlier the fee status is sorted, the better (visa, funding/scholarships, accommodations/work)

• When applying on UCAS and inputting residency/citizenship/housing, as often as possible demonstrate “settled”-ness in UK/EU if you have that passport as uni’s will look for any reason to classify students as overseas whenever possible
  • When classified as overseas by 1 choice and not by others, then raise the issue with the university and use the other domestic/EU offers as evidence/collateral