Home Economics – Aiming for Excellence

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

Journeys to Excellence

Stephanie ValentineDeputy Director GeneralBritish 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 PollockExecutive Director Learning and Leisure ServicesNorth 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 FordPlays 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 DurieWinner of BNF AH Prize, 2006Now 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