Key Messages About Working in food and Drink
Find Your Future in Food and Drink provides a comprehensive resource for employers, educators and jobseekers alike, showcasing the the sectors diverse and rewarding career paths.
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.
Resource: new toolkit outlines reasons to find a future in food
A newly released toolkit – called Find Your Future In Food & Drink - provides a comprehensive resource for employers, educators, and jobseekers alike, showcasing the sector's diverse and rewarding career paths.
Your guide to Graduate Apprenticeships
Fancy some fully funded degree-level training for your employees? Then it’s time to find out a bit more about Graduate Apprenticeships.
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Food for thought: can work-based training address skills shortages?
Professor Gillian Murray from Heriot-Watt University asks if Graduate Apprenticeships can be one answer to addressing our skills shortage.
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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”.
Food and drink sector offer ideal place to work
With Scotland's unemployment rate at an all-time low, there is fierce competition to attract a skilled and flexible workforce.
Resource: Skills Development Scotland
Skills Development Scotland works directly with employers across Scotland, providing trusted advice that helps employers invest in existing skills and develop new talent using equal and inclusive recruitment.
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Resource: apprenticeships options
You may already employ apprentices, or be thinking about getting involved. Visit the apprenticeships.scot website to get an overview of what’s on offer.
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Resource: routes into food education
This shows information about pathways and progression routes into the food & drink industry that might provide inspiration on ways to develop the skillset of your workforce.
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Resource: Skills Development Scotland
Skills Development Scotland works directly with employers across Scotland, providing trusted advice that helps employers invest in existing skills and develop new talent using equal and inclusive recruitment.
Publication type: website
Resource: Recruitment and Retention Toolkit
The full 68-page recruitment and retention toolkit from the Scotland Food & Drink Partnership provides a comprehensive guide for employers.
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Food and Drink Federation Scotland
Contact details:
skills@fdfscotland.org.uk
Tel: 0131 229 9415
EIT - Food Educators Resources
Food Educators is an EIT Food programme that provides teachers with fun, creative and interesting activities to engage young people, mainly schoolchildren. Our easily accessible, science-based food education materials enhance students' learning so they can become better informed, conscious consumers of the future.
We harvest new insights into how to deepen learning experiences around food, promote health and sustainability, and motivate future generations to pursue careers in the agrifood sector. Our programme focuses on inspiring leadership, conscious consumerism, food science literacy, entrepreneurial mindsets, and vocational possibilities among young people aged 9 to 18 years old.
EIT - On Line Food Courses
EIT Food are equipping learners all over Europe and beyond with the skills and knowledge they need to make a lasting impact on a rapidly evolving sector. You won’t just learn how to keep pace with it. You’ll have access to the latest research on the food you eat.
Through their flexible online courses, and with the support of a global network of learners, researchers, experts and entrepreneurs, you’ll be inspired by some of the brightest minds the sector has to offer. You’ll get the freedom to immerse yourself in groundbreaking research, constantly feeding your appetite for learning, all at the forefront of innovation.
Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen
Contact details:
Dr Julia Mitchell
Head of Knowledge Exchange, Impact and Communications
julia.mitchell@abdn.ac.uk
