<p>When it comes to internationals working as a way of helping to fund the course you would need to check the university's rules as well as the UK visa conditions. Oxford certainly doesn't allow its undergraduates to have jobs during term and I would expect Cambridge to be the same. The more academically high-powered universities are more likely to impose limitations.</p>
<p>I think the OP needs to decide what her D is looking for. London is a city of 7 million. Oxford about 200,000. Norwich is smaller (St Andrews, about 12! It's tiny!). London is hugely atypical of the UK as a whole because the next biggest city. Birmingham, doesn't even have a population of 1 million. Living in Norwich, for example, if going to be a world away from London and is unlikely to be what OP's D wants. Even if you think the UK is tiny, if you spend every weekend travelling to London rather than studying (and this would take all day from St Andrews) I can guarentee the student would fail, and fail quickly. Really enrolling at a UK school is not like doinga study abroad program. There are lots of study abroad students in the UK, and most of them just pay lots of money to spend a year travelling, drinking and partying. You can still do that sometimes, but if you're really enrolled you will have to do a lot more studying. They're not big and re-sits and rather more keen on exams and failure in the UK. </p>
<p>About working. If you are in the UK for long than 6 months you have to get a student visa. This allows a student to work (automatically. the work visa is included in the student one) up to 20 hours a week during term time and full time in the vacations. HOWEVER:-
1)oldspc is exactly right. Oxford and Cambridge pretty much ban term-time working. You can work for the university, but this usually this means 5 hours a week shelf-stacking in the college library for £5 an hour. It won't be more than that.
2)To get a visa you have to prove you can already pay the college fee and estimated living costs. i.e. you cannot say you will raise the money through working. You have to prove it's already in your bank account.
3)The UK economy has gone belly-up along with the US. I wouldn't bank on getting any part time job at the moment. Plus the cost of living is very high so they money may not go very far.</p>