Earn while you learn. Modern Apprenticeships combine a qualification with on-the-job experience. This lets people work, learn and earn at the same time.

Stuart Common talking about working in Mackies

Food Careers educational package targets children from the age of 15-18 with a challenge-based approach, building on the local ecosystem and opportunities. The aim is to inspire and encourage young people to study a food-related discipline while raising awareness on opportunities and career tracks in the agrifood sector.

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.

Food Mission educational package targets school children from age 9-14. It has the aim of creating awareness about food-related issues in an interdisciplinary manner. It connects food with sustainability, health and science communication.

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.

The agri-food industry has a variety of exciting jobs on offer throughout the food value chain. This video series aims to inspire young audiences to consider a career within the agri-food sector.

Quality Meat Scotland’s interactive educational resource.

Explore the journey Scottish red meat makes from farm to fork and the role that red meat plays as part of a healthy balanced diet and in the economy and environment.

Higher Chemistry Resources
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBp7P5L1jc78dLak-19RN6yduIrwj9hr4

Careers in Food and Drink
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBp7P5L1jc7_iCy72XvvaMqMEi691Cl7u

World of food and drink
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBp7P5L1jc78KBwk3RFoFsqsLfVBqZSKd

Apprenticeships in food and drink
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBp7P5L1jc796s7Inhy77naUmvRvCLByg

Reformulation for Health 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBp7P5L1jc7_eJg-OJaWk3_6y11EzviYz

Inside Scottish Food and Drink
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRW9aejev5AFd3EKVMWjUCaY_A9z9SMh2

Foundation Apprenticeship specifically for the Food and Drink Industry

Foundation Apprenticeship. Provide school pupils with skills for work and an industry-recognised qualification.

Bridging the gap between education and the world of work.

BSc (Hons) Food Science

A resource looking at and setting data tasks around some of the stages involved in steak pie production, demonstrating the need for maths in the world of work.

IFST Science and Technology Resources

Lantra Careers

Love Food Love Science gives secondary school teachers access to credible food science and technology teaching resources

This free, interactive resource has been created by Community Windpower, First Milk and Nestlé. Explore the different areas through a self-touring platform full of educational videos, activities and quizzes!

BSc (Hons) Food, Nutrition and Huma Health

Royal Highland Education Trust resources to support application of maths for all stages based on the food chain

Teaching resources linked to the National 5 and Higher Chemistry curriculum

A series of science experiments linking STEM to careers

Exemplar careers presentation for use when promoting careers in the Agrifood sector

Skills Development Scotland is the national skills body supporting the people and businesses of Scotland to develop and apply their skills.

Industry 4.0
https://vimeo.com/226891413

We organise and host events with the aim of inspiring and engaging young people aged 10-14 with the range of careers in the four STEM pillars – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Scotland’s food and drink sector is composed of many smaller businesses that rely on traditional or craft skills to create products of provenance. This course will allow you to demonstrate competence in job-related skills in your particular area of work and expertise within the food and drink manufacturing and processing industry.

Careers Information

Careers and skills required in producing a Burns Supper with activities to help pupils to understand how these skills link to the real world of work.

Food science nutrition and wellbeing

Food and consumer science

BSc (Hons) BioScience

Here’s a deck that outlines why you’d think about working in food & drink, including statistics, career maps, qualification guides as well as inspirational stories behind some the people working in the industry…