The benefits of student mobility
Outward mobility offers life-changing experiences and builds graduate skills. The benefits can be seen in personal and academic development and in boosting employability. The UUKi report “Gone International: mobility works” found a correlation between outward mobility and improved academic and employment outcomes. Here are just a few figures from that report:
- BME students who were mobile were 17% more likely to be in a graduate job
- Disabled students who were mobile were 20% less likely to be unemployed
- Students who were first in family to attend University and were mobile were 13% more likely to proceed to further study
- Mature students who were mobile were earning on average 10% more
For more information on the benefits of mobility for students, particularly for WP students, see the attached report from UUKi.
UUKi Gone International Mobility Works 2017
The benefits of Trans-National Education
TNE is an increasingly popular provision to UK universities for a variety of reasons. These include deeper
international partnerships, developing institution brand, reputation and an overseas ‘footprint’, and as a source of revenue. The UUKi – WECD report “Transnational Education: Global Location, Local Innovation” lists more benefits:
- Increasing opportunities for two-way student mobility, including visits and exchanges, giving
students invaluable international experience that benefits them and their local economies. - Opening up new routes to continuous professional development for academic staff in the host and
home countries, including networking for international collaborative research projects. - Mutual strengthening of cultural understanding and respect for securing long-term and effective
partnerships.
The report is linked below and the University of Lincoln’s TNE partnership with UoWM KDU is featured on p. 28.
The benefits of Internationalisation at Home
Internationally mobile students and staff make up a relatively small proportion of the university community. Internationalisation at Home aims to bring the benefits of mobility to all students and staff by offering them a global experience regardless of whether they travel or not. These are some more of the benefits of Internationalisation at Home:
- Cuts across all of the usual barriers to student mobility, meaning all students can profit.
- Goes beyond electives or specialised programmes as elements of internationalisation are integrated into the core curriculum.
- Develops intercultural perspectives among students and staff through internationalised learning outcomes.
- Increases interprofessional/interdisciplinary collaboration among academic staff.
- Develops general transferable skills for employability, eg teamwork, leadership, collaboration, digital working