Germane experience: Six Welsh student nurses are mastering the German language In preparation for an exchange visit to Osnabruck in the spring. It is one of the first international exchange schemes in the UK to involve diploma nursing students. The students, from the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Glamorgan, will spend 15 weeks sharing practical and theoretical knowledge with German nurses. They will work in surgical, care of the elderly and paediatric areas.