A new version of UKCISA's pdf guide 'Who pays 'home' fees for higher education in England?' has been published. Please use version 10 from now on.
The only change is to the category for ‘Brexit protected rights: Child of a Turkish worker’ (on pages 98 and 99 of the pdf guide). A new note has been added to the explanation of the requirements for the category, it says:
Because Covid-19 affected travel in 2020, the Government’s Department for Education issued some special guidance in May 2024. They recognise that some people will have been unable to arrive in time for 31 December 2020. It might have been you who was unable to arrive in time, or perhaps it was your parent. Perhaps both of you were unable to arrive in time.
If it was your parent who was unable to arrive in time, then the requirements in the third and fourth bullet points of (a) can be ignored, provided all these three requirements are met instead:
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- your parent made an immigration application using the ‘Ankara Agreement’ (Turkish EC Association Agreement) before 11pm on 31 December 2020; and
- that immigration application was granted at some point; and
- your parent has been lawfully employed or self-employed in the UK at some point in time.
If it was you who was unable to arrive in time, then the requirement in the first bullet point of (a) can be ignored, provided the following requirement is met instead:
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- you made an immigration application using the ‘Ankara Agreement’ (Turkish EC Association Agreement) before 11pm on 31 December 2020.
If both you and your parent were unable to arrive in time, then all four bullet points mentioned above in this box will need to be met.
You can read all the requirements in full in the pdf guide, to see how the note changes things.
Action for fee assessors
If you are a fee assessor, think about whether any of your existing students might be entitled to benefit from the change for years that start on or after 1 April 2024, as well as new starters. Check assessments you have already made.
Action for students
If you have previously been told you did not qualify for ‘home’ fees, check to see if you benefit from the new note. If you do, talk to your fee assessor straightaway, about your fees for academic years that start on or after 1 April 2024. You might want to send them a link to this story.
Further reading
If you want to read the special guidance that the Government’s Department for Education issued (which is described in the note), it is their Student Support Information Note ‘03/24 Delays in entering or returning to the UK due to Covid-19’.
Downloading the pdf guide
Version 10 (dated 4 June 2024) contains no new information compared to version 9 (dated 21 May 2024), apart from the one change described above.
Please use version 10 of the pdf guide from now on.
Students can download version 10 of the pdf guide ('Who pays 'home' fees for HE in England?') from the UKCISA website. UKCISA members will probably prefer to use the member copy of version 10 - it can be downloaded by UKCISA members from section 2.5 of the fees section of the UKCISA online manual (look in the Resources box at the bottom of the page). It includes useful additional footnotes.
As explained at the beginning of the pdf, it is a 'living' document and readers should expect to see it develop over time. Please always use only the most recent version.
