British with International Gradeds.

In order to qualify for home fees under this category, you must meet all of the following criteria:
(i) you must be 'settled' in the UK on the 'first day of the first academic year of the course' (or equivalent date in Scotland)
AND
(ii) you must also have been 'ordinarily resident' in the UK and Islands (the Islands means the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) for the full 3 year period before the 'first day of the first academic year of the course'.
(For example, if your course begins in October 2006, you must have been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands from 1 September 2003 to 31 August 2006)
AND
(iii) the main purpose for your residence in the UK and islands must not have been to receive full-time education during any part of that three year period.

ORDINARILY RESIDENT
You are 'ordinarily resident' in the relevant residence area (which is either the UK and Islands or the EEA and Switzerland, depending on the category and its qualifying conditions) if you have habitually, normally and lawfully resided in that area from choice. Temporary absences from the residence area should be ignored. If you can demonstrate that you have not been ordinarily resident in the relevant residence area only because you, or your ‘relevant family member’, were temporarily working outside the relevant residence area, you will be treated as though you have been ordinarily resident for the period during which this was the case.

MAIN PURPOSE OF RESIDENCE BEING FULL-TIME EDUCATION
Where a category includes a condition that the main purpose of your residence must not have been to receive full-time education, a useful question to ask is: “if you had not been in full-time education, where would you have been ordinarily resident?”. If the answer is “outside the relevant residence area” this would indicate that the main purpose for your residence was full-time education. If the answer is that you would have been resident in the relevant residence area even if you had not been in full-time education, this would indicate that full-time education was not the main purpose for your residence in the relevant area.

'Settled' means being ordinarily resident in the UK without any immigration restriction on the length of your stay in the UK. The fees regulations refer to immigration law for the definition of ‘settled’. To be 'settled' you must either have the Right of Abode or Indefinite Leave to Enter or Remain in the UK or have the right of permanent residence in the UK under EU law. If your passport describes you as a ‘British citizen’, then you have the ‘Right of Abode’. Certain categories exempt from time limits on their stay in the UK, however, do not come within the definition of ‘settled’ – for example, diplomats and members of their households do not have specified time limits on their permission to stay in the UK but they are not ‘settled’ under the relevant immigration law.