Appendix A

Classification of students for fees purposes

The University currently applies the following definition of persons entitled to be charged University tuition fees at the appropriate ‘Home’ (and EU) rate.

1. A person who on the relevant date:
   
   (a) is settled in the United Kingdom within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971, and
   
   (b) meets the residence conditions referred to in paragraph 9.
   
   
2. A person who is a refugee, ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands, who has not ceased to be so ordinarily resident since he or she was recognised as a refugee, or is the spouse, or child of such a refugee and was such at the time of the principal’s asylum application to the Home Office.
   
   
3. A person who:
   
   (a) has been:
   
   

   (i) informed in writing by a person acting under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department that, although he or she is considered not to qualify for recognition as a refugee, it is thought right to allow him or her to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, and
   
   (ii) granted leave to enter or remain accordingly, and
   
   (iii)been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the period since he or she was granted leave to enter or remain or who is the spouse or child of such a person and who was such at the time of the principal’s asylum application to the Home Office.
   
   

4. A person who was admitted to his or her course in pursuance of arrangements with an institution outside the United Kingdom for the exchange of students on a fully reciprocal basis.
   
   
5. A person who is a national of a member State of the European Union, or who is the child of such a national, and who meets the residence conditions referred to in paragraph 9.
   
   
6. A person who is an EEA*/Swiss migrant worker who:
   
   (a) may not be required to pay higher fees, or who may not be made ineligible for an award under rules of eligibility, by virtue of Article 7(2) or (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 on freedom of movement of workers within the Community, as extended by the EEA Agreement, or, where he or she is a national of the United Kingdom, by virtue of an enforceable Union right to be treated no less favourably than a national of another member State in relation to matters which are the subject of Article 7(2) and (3), and
   
   (b) meets the residence conditions referred to in paragraph 9.
   
   
7. A person who is the spouse of an EEA/Swiss migrant worker and who:
   
   (a) is installed in the United Kingdom with his or her spouse, and
   
   (b) meets the residence conditions referred to in paragraph 9.
   
   
8. A person who:
   
   a) is a child of an EEA or Swiss or Turkish migrant worker and who:
   
   

   (i) may not be required to pay higher fees, or may not be made ineligible for an award under rules of eligibility, by virtue of Article 12 of the above mentioned Council Regulation, or, where his or her migrant worker parent is a national of the United Kingdom, by virtue of an enforceable Union right to be treated no less favourably than the child or a national of another member State in relation to matters which are the subject of Article 12, and
   
   (ii) meets the residence condition referred to in paragraph 9.
   
   

   (b) For the purposes of this paragraph ‘parent’ includes a guardian, any other person having parental responsibility for a child and any person having care of a child, and ‘child’ shall be construed accordingly.
   
   
9. The residence conditions referred to above are that:
   
   (a) the person has been ordinarily resident throughout the three-year period preceding the relevant date, in the case of a person mentioned in paragraph 1, in the United Kingdom and Islands, or, in the case of a person mentioned in paragraphs 5 to 8, in the European Economic Area or Switzerland or EU Overseas Territories (or in the case of the child of a Turkish worker; in the European Economic Area or EU Overseas Territories or Switzerland or Turkey); and
   
   (b) his or her residence in the United Kingdom and Islands, or in the European Economic Area or Switzerland or EU Overseas Territories (or Turkey), as the case may be, has not during any part of the period referred to in sub-paragraph (a) been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education; and
   
   (c) in the case of a person mentioned in paragraphs 6 to 8, was ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands on the relevant date.
   
   
10. A person shall be treated as ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or the EEA if he would have been so resident at the relevant time but for the fact that he, his spouse, his parent, guardian, any other person having parental responsibility for him, or any person having care of him while he is a child, is or was temporarily employed outside the area in question.
    
    
11. A reference in this Appendix to the relevant date is a reference to 1 September, 1 January, or 1 April closest to the beginning of the first term of the person’s course.
    
    

*The European Economic Area (EEA) is made up of all the countries in the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.