News | 22 August 2024
HEURO Chair, Professor Michael Rosier with Taith Chair, Kirsty Williams CBE and HEURO Vice-Chair, Rowena Kidger
Cardiff Metropolitan University has this week hosted the annual HEURO Managing Mobility Workshop for the sixth time, welcoming over 80 Higher Education mobility officers from across the UK.
HEURO, an association that provides a platform for all professionals, academic and administrative, are involved in facilitating student mobility to discuss and promote matters of common interest and disseminating good practice.
The Managing Mobility event, held at the Cardiff School of Management, focused on enhancing the student mobility journey at home and abroad, delivering a packed agenda focused on best practices, updates, and new strategies in managing international student mobility.
Guests were invited to discuss a range of topics, including fulfilling duty of care to students abroad, promoting language learning in preparation for studying abroad, and how to ensure disabled students excel whilst studying abroad.
The event also featured a series of talks from Turing Scheme UK, Universities UK International and Student Loans Company, including former leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats and Chair of Taith Advisory Board, Kirsty Williams CBE.
Delivering the keynote speech at the event, Kirsty Williams said: 'Wales' commitment to supporting and promoting internationalism and mobility remains a key element of our nation's contract with its young people, with its learners and with its educators. My experience studying abroad was life changing. It broadened my outlook, shaped my values and built my resilience. It made me more tolerant and more empathetic to other people's lived experience.
We've worked hard to develop the Taith programme to ensure it works well for the education sectors across Wales. Our strategy focuses on providing opportunities for those from underrepresented groups and those who face the biggest barriers to participate in international exchange. Since March 2021, we’ve funded over 4,830 mobilities to 88 countries, with 40% of our outbound learners coming from underrepresented groups. With Taith funding, we're creating life-changing impacts.
Cardiff Met is one of Taith's 287 partner organisations delivering a comprehensive mobility programme to its students and providing opportunities for eligible students to study, work and volunteer overseas.
Rowena Kidger, Cardiff Met's Global Opportunities Manager and Vice Chair of HEURO, said: "I am absolutely delighted to welcome over 80 delegates to this year's HEURO Global Managing Mobility workshop. I have hosted the annual workshop since 2016, and this is by far the biggest and most popular workshop to date. I absolutely love what HEURO is about in offering support and guidance in the world of global mobility."
Delegates were invited to Cardiff Castle for a networking dinner at the Cardiff landmark
For more information or to arrange an interview in English or Welsh please contact
press@cardiffmet.ac.uk or call 029 2041 6362
About Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Cardiff Metropolitan University has five academic schools across two sites in Llandaff and Cyncoed, Cardiff: Cardiff School of Art and Design; Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences; Cardiff School of Education & Social Policy; Cardiff School of Management, and Cardiff School of Technologies, and three Global Academies: (Health and Human Performance; Food Science, Safety and Security; and Human Centred Design) bring together research expertise to develop inter-disciplinary, international and impactful approaches to some of the most entrenched challenges affecting us locally, nationally and internationally.
- The University has over 31,000 students from 130 countries enrolled on programmes located in Cardiff and at 13 collaborative partners around the globe.
- Cardiff Met's purpose is to deliver high quality and high impact practice-focused and professionally recognised education, research and innovation in partnership with its students and industry.
- Cardiff Metropolitan University has been ranked 6th in the UK and the best in Wales for sustainability in People and Planet's University League 2023/24, the only comprehensive and independent league table of all UK universities ranked by environmental and ethical performance.
- Cardiff Met is ranked eighth in the UK for graduate employability and student life by the Uni Compare University Rankings 2023.
- Cardiff Met was the first university in Wales to be designated as a University of Sanctuary, providing 'Sanctuary Scholarships' for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and academic staff who are at risk in their countries.
- Cardiff Met achieved an excellent result in the Advance-HE Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES), with a general satisfaction rate of 90%. This places the University 2nd out of the 58 Higher Education Institutes that took part, 10% above the HEI average. It is the 3rd year in a row that Cardiff Met has been ranked in the top three for general satisfaction.
- The University is the first in Wales to be awarded both the prestigious Small Business Charter and the Social Enterprise mark in recognition of its work with business, and its commitment to supporting students in enterprise and entrepreneurship activities.
