5 -11 October 2020 marks Dyslexia Awareness Week. To find out how you can get involved, please visit the British Dyslexia Association website. Megan McCluskey – First year Criminology and Law I have dyscalculia, which is a specific learning difficulty related to maths. I like to explain it as having dyslexia but with maths instead
In this blog, postgraduate student Priya Rawal (MBA) shares her essentials for any international student coming to study at the University of Stirling. As you eagerly await this new and exciting journey of studying in Scotland, I’m sure you’re looking, eating, breathing and sleeping Google and social media. You’ll be asking around, reading blogs and trying to contact your friends
In this blog BA (Hons) Business Studies student, Luke Thomas, reflects on his experiences as a first-year student at the University of Stirling. On the morning of my first day as a University of Stirling student, I had to leave my house around 6:30am to travel from Belfast to Stirling for my arrival time at 2pm. It was emotional
There’s no two ways about it: 2020 has been pretty different than any other year we’ve been around! Over the course of the last few months, the global COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has created some huge hurdles, shut down big parts of our lives and forced us all to think hard about how we go out,
In this blog BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology student, Emily Snowling, reflects on her experiences as a first-year student at the University of Stirling. 430 miles, and a nine-hour car drive from South London later I had arrived at my new home in Stirling. I remember the feeling of getting my key, going up to my room, opening
We might be living in uncertain times, but this shouldn’t stop you from getting started on a brand-new adventure at uni. There are loads of amazing universities and colleges to choose from, and so in order to narrow down your top choices it’s always best to go to an open day event to get a
Since graduating from the University of Stirling 1981, alumnus Alastair Nicoll’s career with AON (a leading professional services provider) has taken him around the globe. In 2017, he became Regional Director for the Asia Pacific area at Aon – and there, he found a new passion: dragon boat racing. Boasting its origins in ancient China,
Hear from UofStirling alumni Kenice Wong who graduated in 1999 and is now a registered English teacher in her home country of Hong Kong.
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