Studying in the UK and paying Home and Foreign fees

[Beanieskis]

I heard of an interesting case that's slightly related to this issue but nothing to benefit the question posted by OP..

A friend's god daughter went to Glasgow university (IIRC) and at the same time one of her secondary school mate went in as well. Both of them have UK passport but both were in HK international school in the last 3/5 years.

The goddaughter were charged foreign fees but her class mate got away with the resident fees. Simply because goddaughter is a chinese (with full UK passport) whereas the other chap is a caucasian. 8-)

Are you sure that was the reason why? If so that's blatant discrimination and probably illegal. However, could it actually have been that the one who got the local fees, for some reason, was someone they wanted at the uni more, and thought he'd go elsewhere otherwise?

[hullexile]

Are you sure that was the reason why? If so that's blatant discrimination and probably illegal. However, could it actually have been that the one who got the local fees, for some reason, was someone they wanted at the uni more, and thought he'd go elsewhere otherwise?

Having been involved in university admission I can honestly say skin colour/race NEVER came into the decision making.

[Fatpigkenny]

Having been involved in university admission I can honestly say skin colour/race NEVER came into the decision making.

skin/race might not, but money does

[ArrynField]

Difficult to comment as we don’t know the full details of these cases.

It’s up to the Universities discretion to grant Home Fee Status. Showing strong connections to the U.K. obvious helps.

Maybe they were able to provide the following for Home Fee Status:-

evidence of a “family home/property in U.K. (Not let out)” in the U.K.
payment of council tax
annual flight tickets to the U.K.,
having Grand Parents in the U.K.,
showing strong connections with the U.K.
temporary residence overseas with the intention to return to U.K.


All of the above (with evidence) can/may influence the University’s decision, despite not having 3 years residence in the U.K. However the Student would not be able to qualify for a student loan.

I heard of an interesting case that's slightly related to this issue but nothing to benefit the question posted by OP..

A friend's god daughter went to Glasgow university (IIRC) and at the same time one of her secondary school mate went in as well. Both of them have UK passport but both were in HK international school in the last 3/5 years.

The goddaughter were charged foreign fees but her class mate got away with the resident fees. Simply because goddaughter is a chinese (with full UK passport) whereas the other chap is a caucasian. 8-)

[TheBrit]

Difficult to comment as we don’t know the full details of these cases.

It’s up to the Universities discretion to grant Home Fee Status. Showing strong connections to the U.K. obvious helps.

Maybe they were able to provide the following for Home Fee Status:-

evidence of a “family home/property in U.K. (Not let out)” in the U.K.
payment of council tax
annual flight tickets to the U.K.,
having Grand Parents in the U.K.,
showing strong connections with the U.K.
temporary residence overseas with the intention to return to U.K.


All of the above (with evidence) can/may influence the University’s decision, despite not having 3 years residence in the U.K. However the Student would not be able to qualify for a student loan.

This is a good reply to that bullshit post implying it’s based on race. Shoe colour or length of hair would be equally as meaningless as race in this regard. The factors you cite are all taken into consideration… “race”, not so much… as if there’s even a workable definition of race.