Diving into a seafood career: new programme launches alongside Scottish Food & Drink Ambassadors
The new Scottish Seafood Ambassador programme offers an exciting opportunity to showcase the dynamic careers within the seafood industry, seamlessly integrating with the existing Scottish Food & Drink Ambassadors initiative.
Build a Burns Supper
A relaunched version of a much-loved teaching resource based on a Burns Supper.
Originally created by Developing the Young Workforce, the range of resources from employers and partners showcases careers in the food & drink and land-based industries.
It is designed to help young people understand where our national food & drink comes from.
With Scots celebrating Burns Night every January, it is tied into the theme of a traditional Burns Supper, incorporating the ingredients for which Scotland is most famous.
From growing vegetables for soup and rearing salmon, through to sheep farming, making ice cream and the crucial dram, this highlights the opportunities a career in food & drink can offer.
Food & drink bosses take on Apprentice for a Day challenge
Bosses of leading food & drink organisations have gone back to the workfloor to experience life as an “apprentice for a day”.
Case study: Hebridean Mussels
While 57-year-old James MacDonald from Stornoway might not be most people’s idea of a typical trainee, he has turned out to be an ideal candidate for the Modern Apprentice training programme.
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