Retailers lead economies: Some of the most powerful organisations within economies are retailers. Retailers influence what people buy: Two thirds of all decisions of what to buy are made at the point of sale. Retailers dominate marketing: Retailers have taken over marketing leadership from manufacturers.
Retailers lead innovation and change: Sophisticated customer relationship programmes, multi-channel promotional and marketing; merchandising systems, online sales and flexible supply chains. Retailing is a large and diverse industry that contributes significantly to the overall economy, as well as something that we as consumers experience regularly as part of our everyday lives. Understandably, the retail...

Choose a Bachelor of Education (Primary) at the University of Stirling, and we’ll equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to start a career in one of the most rewarding professions.

We’ll prepare you to teach across the whole curriculum and primary age range, and also enable you to develop a specialism in a particular area. You can choose from six subject specialisms:

Early Years
The Environment
Modern Languages
Inclusive Practice
Literacy
Numeracy
You’ll be taught by world-leading academics and outstanding teachers who are seconded from...

Understanding religion in different contexts and developing the transferable skills of critical thinking, communication, research and analysis, make Religion graduates an invaluable resource for today’s employers. At Stirling we are committed to approaching ‘religion’ in a critical manner, in two broad senses: Firstly: We question the fundamental category of ‘religion’. It is sometimes assumed to be a ‘thing’ that simply exists, and this is where, in part, the idea that we can study ‘religions’ as entities in any society or context comes from. This, of course, implies that what ‘religion’ actually is stands as common knowledge and applies to all...

Human Resource Management (HRM) deals with the management of an organisation’s workforce. Organisational success depends upon developing appropriate methods of: recruitment and selection; motivation; reward; training and development; grievance and discipline; performance management and career progression. Did you know? • Human Resource Management lecturing staff are regularly nominated by students for the Students’ Union’s RATE awards for excellence in teaching. Staff come from various academic and employment backgrounds, bringing a rich variety of perspectives to their teaching. • Staff research interests include: employee ownership, employers use of social networking sites in the workplace and employability...

Adult nursing is a challenging and rewarding profession that offers a wide range of roles caring for people and promoting health.

Stirling is a superb place for you to learn the skills of modern nursing, which are valued around the world. Our course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and has also received multiple commendations.

Nursing is a dynamic profession, and we’ll give you the education and confidence necessary to fulfil your role in the healthcare teams of tomorrow. As you study, you’ll learn how to work with a range of...

Here at Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence, we are able to offer an outstanding environment in which to study sport, take part in sport, research sport, and perform in sport at the highest levels. Our scenic sporting campus is home to world-class sports facilities including a 50m swimming pool, a golf course, a fitness centre, an eight-court sports hall, nine grass and artificial pitches and 10 tennis courts, plus more. Our Sports Studies course is flexible, with a wide variety of module options. It can form part of a Combined Honours course alongside a range of subjects including Journalism,...

Students who study Sport Business Management will experience a professionally focused curriculum delivered with the support and use of ‘real life’ contexts and realistic sports-based working environments; an integrated learning experience facilitated through staff teams employing a variety of different delivery modes; opportunities to enhance and develop a range of relevant personal skills including problem solving, decision making and reflective skills; and engagement with a consultancy project, working with a sport business company to help solve a real-world business challenge. Core Modules Year One: • The Global Business Environment: An Introduction • Introduction to Sports Studies 1
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Robotic and autonomous systems used in space and subsea exploration, are now used in areas such as autonomous vehicle guidance, health care, remote surgery, industrial manufacturing, and domestic assistance. This is a multi-disciplinary programme in electronics, computer software, and mechanics with the opportunity to build integrated systems. Students can continue a broad based curriculum throughout the degree, or specialise in particular aspects of contemporary robotics in the latter years.

Our Bachelor Degree Accelerator Programme (The Accelerator) is an alternative route to begin your degree offering direct entry to second-year study across our undergraduate degrees.

**Learning style**

The Accelerator’s style of teaching will best prepare you for degree level studies with lectures, tutorials and seminars, encouraging independent thinking and developing your academic knowledge and skills.

The intensive and focused programme will enable you to:
• transition seamlessly into degree-level studies;
• make an informed choice about your degree;
• ...

This thought-provoking Criminology and Sociology degree covers everything from addiction and criminalisation to human rights and death. You'll learn how to think critically about how people engage and interact with the world around them.

Criminology and Sociology is a flexible degree. For the first two years, everyone studies the same curriculum. In years three and four our academics help you explore areas such as:

Gender, crime and victimology.
Race and ethnicity.
The process of criminalisation.
Human rights and politics.

After the first two years of study, you...