“…collating, disseminating and encouraging the adoption of good practice…”

Stephanie Valentine
Deputy Director General
British Nutrition Foundation
“Successful home economics teachers develop superb time and resource management skills. I couldn’t do my job without them
….. oh, and a superb team of colleagues.”

Christine Pollock
Executive Director
Learning and Leisure Services
North Lanarkshire Council
“My training as a home economist undoubtedly helped to me develop high level practical and organisational skills, enabling me to multi-task and successfully achieve challenging deadlines, manage to handle diverse pressures and cope with the ‘heat in the kitchen’.”

Ross Ford
Plays rugby for Scotland
When at school, he studied
Higher Health and Food
Technology, and says –
“You are what you eat! – This message was reinforced constantly in home economics.”

Laura Durie
Winner of BNF AH Prize, 2006
Now a third year dietetics student at
Queen Margaret University
“Home economics has interested me since S1 of secondary. My dissertation in S6 greatly increased my passion for the subject, as it allowed me to study independently a chosen topic that interested me in relation to diet and health.”

HM Consul General
Florence