I think the requirement is "normally living in Scotland".
(I'm not 100% sure how this is enforced. It rather seems as though getting a cheap flat north of the border and declaring that as your normal residence for the duration of studies could be worthwhile if you can afford it...)
This isn't quite true - Scotland's income tax rates are slightly different from the rest of the UK's, so residence inside or outside Scotland is relevant.
I actuality considered Scotland but by then the UCAS deadline passed so I forgot about it.
Transferring is a ptetty great idea, I will definitely look into it.
Yeah, but. Foreign graduates from UK universities are chased out immediately. Unless that’s changed? It was a major plank in the 2014 Scottish referendum platform.
The difference is that this doesn't cause any incentive to stay in Scotland after your education nor for anybody from the rest of the UK to move to Scotland after their education.
For those curious: The reason Scottish universities can have that exception is a quirk of EU law: it only prevents inter-country – not intra-country – discrimination for public services.
Also, I'm not sure if they've closed it or not but there was a loop hole a few years ago that allowed students in Northern Ireland to go to Scottish Universities without paying fees due to dual Irish/British citizenship.
That's a nice statement, and I agree that Scotland is a lovely country, but is immigration feasible for a random white collar person? What's actually required to gain residency (and is it permanent)? Is there a path to citizenship? And with Brexit looming, will this all change in a few years?
Looks like it does: “Students from Scotland are again the most positive, but there has been a statistically significant (6%) fall this year.”[1]
However fees are only paid by the government if a Scottish student (including those from elsewhere the EU, at least before Brexit) studies in Scotland; not if they study elsewhere in the UK.
Out of interest, what was the Scottish universities' plan if the independence referendum had succeeded (in which case EU law would have prevented them from charging or discriminating against English students, and suddenly England's 10-times-bigger population would have had a £9,000 per year incentive to go to Scotland for uni...)
As far as I understand it, the eligibility rules for the EU referendum were exactly the same as for Parliamentary elections: UK nationals in the EU were only eligible to vote if they'd been abroad for less than 15 years.
The Scottish independence referendum was the oddball one, largely at the request of the Scottish government from what I can tell. It required actual residence in Scotland but little else.
> The UK has been very clear with anyone under 50: Want an education? You're on your own. Want a decent job? You're on your own. Want housing? You're on your own.
*England* has. Scotland takes a very different approach.
It would be up to an (independent) Scotland to determine the rules. At the time of the last referendum relatively liberal rules were being tossed around (one parent born in Scotland as I recall being one possible criterion). Countries obviously vary a lot in how hard or easy it is to claim citizenship.
Well, now I need to get Scottish citizenship when they get around to being independent to get around the EU since a British passport isn't going to do it any more.
* stable institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities;
* a functioning market economy and the capacity to cope with competition and market forces in the EU;
* the ability to take on and implement effectively the obligations of membership, including adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union.
I'm not entirely sure about this, but I think Scotland allows more generations ago than England. But yes, once you're in you can work anywhere in the UK.
(I'm not 100% sure how this is enforced. It rather seems as though getting a cheap flat north of the border and declaring that as your normal residence for the duration of studies could be worthwhile if you can afford it...)
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