Originally Posted by mark & jools

Hi,

We're not sure if this topic has been covered on this site as we are new to this forum and haven't navigated around it completely; so apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

We are leaving for the Southern part of the Gold Coast on the 23 Aug, and are trying to determine which are the best state primary schools in the area. But we can't find any performance ratings produced from one official body on the net, (like OFSTED here). Can anybody tell us if such bodies exist? who they are? If they don't , how do you establish which is a good school before arriving in Aus?

Also on another subject - Can you get a mortgage in Queensland without a job using just the equity from our property in England or do you need to be employed in Aus for a certain period of time?

Any advise will be really appreciated, as time is rapidly running out on us and suddenly there's so many things to do!

Originally Posted by mark & jools

Hi,

We're not sure if this topic has been covered on this site as we are new to this forum and haven't navigated around it completely; so apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

We are leaving for the Southern part of the Gold Coast on the 23 Aug, and are trying to determine which are the best state primary schools in the area. But we can't find any performance ratings produced from one official body on the net, (like OFSTED here). Can anybody tell us if such bodies exist? who they are? If they don't , how do you establish which is a good school before arriving in Aus?

Also on another subject - Can you get a mortgage in Queensland without a job using just the equity from our property in England or do you need to be employed in Aus for a certain period of time?

Any advise will be really appreciated, as time is rapidly running out on us and suddenly there's so many things to do!

Originally Posted by wargod

Welcome to the forum. his has been discussed beofre - but i thought i'd bump it back up and hopefully someone will be able to enlighten you further!

Originally Posted by queenie

No performance tables, certainly not for primary anyway. High schools usually publish something at the end of each year saying how many stsudents got the top mark. Most state primaries are fine in Australia anyway. Choose any and then research high schools. As to mortgages, I don't believe any bank would give an unemployed new immigrant a mortgage. Do you have enough money to buy a small flat outright, then keep it as an investment later on?

Queenie

Originally Posted by mark & jools

Hi,

We're not sure if this topic has been covered on this site as we are new to this forum and haven't navigated around it completely; so apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

We are leaving for the Southern part of the Gold Coast on the 23 Aug, and are trying to determine which are the best state primary schools in the area. But we can't find any performance ratings produced from one official body on the net, (like OFSTED here). Can anybody tell us if such bodies exist? who they are? If they don't , how do you establish which is a good school before arriving in Aus?

Also on another subject - Can you get a mortgage in Queensland without a job using just the equity from our property in England or do you need to be employed in Aus for a certain period of time?

Any advise will be really appreciated, as time is rapidly running out on us and suddenly there's so many things to do!

Originally Posted by mark & jools

Hi,

We're not sure if this topic has been covered on this site as we are new to this forum and haven't navigated around it completely; so apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

We are leaving for the Southern part of the Gold Coast on the 23 Aug, and are trying to determine which are the best state primary schools in the area. But we can't find any performance ratings produced from one official body on the net, (like OFSTED here). Can anybody tell us if such bodies exist? who they are? If they don't , how do you establish which is a good school before arriving in Aus?

Also on another subject - Can you get a mortgage in Queensland without a job using just the equity from our property in England or do you need to be employed in Aus for a certain period of time?

Any advise will be really appreciated, as time is rapidly running out on us and suddenly there's so many things to do!

Originally Posted by mark & jools

Hi,

We're not sure if this topic has been covered on this site as we are new to this forum and haven't navigated around it completely; so apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

We are leaving for the Southern part of the Gold Coast on the 23 Aug, and are trying to determine which are the best state primary schools in the area. But we can't find any performance ratings produced from one official body on the net, (like OFSTED here). Can anybody tell us if such bodies exist? who they are? If they don't , how do you establish which is a good school before arriving in Aus?

Also on another subject - Can you get a mortgage in Queensland without a job using just the equity from our property in England or do you need to be employed in Aus for a certain period of time?

Any advise will be really appreciated, as time is rapidly running out on us and suddenly there's so many things to do!