wendylewis

Hello Everyone

 

I am looking for advice, we activated out PR last year with a big family holiday, and then came back to the UK to continue life and decide what is best for us.

I have been looking forward to the possibility of moving to Australia for many years (since 2004) but i was single at the time, after getting married and starting a family, my dream did not go away logging my application in 2009. It seems like forever to get the visa granted but as Married life is so busy just put it on the back burner.

We enjoy the holiday and activating our visa, but as we returned and continued normal life.

 

Now moving seems like a real possibility again but I would like to understand how the education system is and how it compares to the UK, as my son is in a good independent school which is a good price.

 

What are the real cost of education is Aus (Perth) ?

How do the exam results compare ?

What is the GCSE out in AUS ?

What is the ages that you have to study for in Aus ?

 

any information would be valuable for me.

 

Thanks

Firstly, when were you issued your Visa? You mention 2009 you applied and activated last year? The conditions of our PR were to activate within a year and move within 5 years of it being issued or we lost it. Check the date and conditions of your visa. My children came from an Academy in the UK and are enrolled in the local High School. They've settled and are doing brilliantly. We have no fees, other than the minimal contributory amounts which is about $300 per year for both. Depends on when you come and the age of your children as to what year they will be placed into. High School only goes to Year 12 not Year 13. My son skipped a year but my daughter has remained in the same school year as they didn't want to put her up as needed her to get into the swing of it before going into Year 11 for the start of HSC.

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Hi all,

New to the site (as of today) and we are very pleased to be here! We have recently had our visas granted (for permanent residency) and we are sssssssssoooooooooo excited!:wink:

 

Now to get down to the 'nitty gritty'. We are looking at setting up an Australian bank account (from the UK) and so can anyone recommend which bank would be best and obviously are there any fees associated with these companies/transferring our money from the UK to Oz?

 

We will have various other questions but this is a start..!

 

Thanks all

Congratulations. We opened accounts online in the UK with the Commonwealth Bank and our cards were waiting at the local branch when we arrived. We used Transferwise to send all our money as we looked into Banks, Money Corp etc and compared their rates and fees and Transferwise was the best. This was last year tho.

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