Editing Stirling (section)

==Education==
[[File:Fmstirlinguni.jpg|thumb|right|Looking out over Airthrey Loch on the main campus of The University of Stirling]]

The [[University of Stirling]] opened in 1967 on a greenfield site outside the town. In 2025 the university had 18,500 students globally, of whom over 11,000 are [[undergraduate]]s and over 6,000 are [[postgraduate]]s. There are over 140 nationalities represented on the university campus, with more than 30% of students being international.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/our-reputation/facts-and-figures/ | title=Facts and figures &#124; About }}</ref> It has grown into a major research centre, with a large [[science park|Innovation Park]] located immediately adjacent to the main university campus. Innovation Park has grown since its initiation in 1993, and is now home to 40 companies engaging in various forms of [[research and development]].<ref>''Stirling University Innovation Park'' [http://www.suip.co.uk/AboutSUIP.aspx About us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223181826/http://www.suip.co.uk/AboutSUIP.aspx |date=23 February 2007 }}</ref> In January 2008 it was announced that students from [[Singapore]] would be able to gain degrees in retail from the University of Stirling in a tie-up with the country's [[Nanyang Polytechnic]] (NYP).<ref>{{cite news |access-date=26 August 2008 |newspaper=The Scotsman |title=Stirling in degree deal with Singapore polytechnic |url=http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Stirling-in-degree-deal-with.3692118.jp |date=21 January 2008 |location=Edinburgh |first=Alastair |last=Jamieson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604060829/http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Stirling-in-degree-deal-with.3692118.jp |archive-date=4 June 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> Stirling is also home to part of the wider [[Forth Valley College]] which was formed on 1 August 2005 from the merger of [[Falkirk]], Stirling and [[Clackmannan]] colleges.

There are four main high schools in Stirling itself – [[Stirling High School]], with a school roll of 964 pupils, [[Wallace High School, Stirling|Wallace High School]] with 958 pupils, [[St Modan's High School]] with 912 pupils, and Bannockburn High School in Broomridge with 752 pupils.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/schools/stirlinghighschoolstirling.asp|title=Stirling High School|publisher=Learning and Teaching Scotland|access-date=4 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309073722/http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/schools/stirlinghighschoolstirling.asp|archive-date=9 March 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/schools/stmodanshighschoolstirling.asp|title=St Modans High School|publisher=Learning and Teaching Scotland|access-date=4 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309072951/http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/schools/stmodanshighschoolstirling.asp|archive-date=9 March 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/schools/wallacehighschoolstirling.asp|title=Wallace High School|publisher=Learning and Teaching Scotland|access-date=4 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309074832/http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/schools/wallacehighschoolstirling.asp|archive-date=9 March 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/schools/bannockburnhighschoolstirling.asp|title=Bannockburn High School|publisher=Learning and Teaching Scotland|access-date=4 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309050703/http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/schools/bannockburnhighschoolstirling.asp|archive-date=9 March 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> All the city's secondary school premises have been redeveloped as a result of a [[Public-private partnership]] scheme. Stirling also has a Gaelic-medium unit situated in the city's Riverside Primary School which teaches pupils from across Stirling and Clackmannanshire through the medium of [[Scottish Gaelic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cnp-cs.co.uk/Gaelic.aspx|title=Riverside Primary School|publisher=Stirling and Clackmannan|access-date=6 February 2011|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813191758/http://cnp-cs.co.uk/Gaelic.aspx|archive-date=13 August 2011}}</ref> [[Queen Victoria School]], an agency of the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]], is in [[Dunblane]], near Stirling.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmdfence/uc1054-ii/ucm102.htm|title=Memorandum from the Ministry of Defence (ESC 40)|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|access-date=2024-10-27|quote=Queen Victoria School is unique in Scotland as a Ministry of Defence Government Agency.}}</ref>