Moving to Australia after GCSEs - will this destroy chances of Oxbridge?

[florenceuk]

My sister is thinking of moving to Melbourne for work for a few years - however her daughter is currently finishing off GCSEs and is very keen to read history and maths at Oxbridge (or at least aspires to). She is convinced that moving countries will put paid to any academic success. My helpful intervention was that it was terribly hard but she might have more success doing an undergrad in Australia and then doing a graduate degree in the UK. However of course this is not really acceptable to a teenager. Niece is very bright and focused, have no idea whether Oxbridge is attainable. But will it really be the end of all possible chances for going to Oxbridge if she moves countries at A level?

I think to qualify for home student (or EU) student fee level you have to have lived in uk or eu for the last 3 years. Mumoverseas was posting about her son having to take a gap year in the UK after doing 6th form in order to make the 3 years. So if OPs niece goes to aussie it will be international student fees.

Lazymum.
It is not always as simple as that - there are exemptions that may apply (see earlier post).