Hospitality

Diners at Themes Training Restaurant

Fresh New Look at Themes Restaurant

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Rich Gordon

Themes Restaurant has undergone a makeover during the summer and is now open for lunchtime bookings. The restaurant, on the top floor of the main building at Elmwood, is run...

Categories: Campus, Elmwood, and Hospitality Tags: cookery, Elmwood, hospitality, SRUC Elmwood, and Themes Restaurant

Welcome to new students 2018

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Our Principal, Wayne Powell, records a welcome video to all our students each year. You can watch this online here: Link to the video on Vimeo    

Categories: Aberdeen, Activity Tourism, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Campus, City & Guilds, Countryside Management, Degree, Distance Learning, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Gardening Scotland, Golf, Green & Renewable Technology, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, HN Level, Horticulture, Hospitality, Introductory, Land-based Engineering, Land-Based Skills, Landscape, Modern Apprenticeships, Oatridge, Organic Farming, Postgraduate, Poultry, Professional Certification, Renewables, Rural & Estate Skills, Short Courses, Sports, SRUC Subjects, Study level, Sustainability, and Veterinary Nursing
Catherine Devaney, Level 2 Diploma Professional Cookery student

Catherine Devaney – Professional Cookery

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Rich Gordon

Catherine Devaney started her professional life as a lawyer in Edinburgh, but after moving to Fife and falling in love with the surroundings, she made a slight career change and...

Categories: Change your path, Elmwood, Hospitality, Professional Certification, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, and Student Successes Tags: Change your path, cookery, Cupar, Elmwood, hospitality, SRUC Elmwood, and students

Why are you doing this?

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

We asked our current students what motivated them to study their course…. here are the full results: There are some variations by subject area – those studying subjects related to animals are...

Categories: Aberdeen, Advice, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Countryside Management, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Golf, Green & Renewable Technology, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, Horticulture, Hospitality, Land-based Engineering, Land-Based Skills, Landscape, Oatridge, Poultry, Renewables, Rural & Estate Skills, Sports, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, Student Successes, Sustainability, and Veterinary Nursing
Craig Trewern

Craig Trewern

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Rich Gordon

Craig Trewern (31) from St Andrews came to SRUC Elmwood to study Hospitality after recommendations from family and friends about the well equipped facilities and pro-active teaching team. Craig, who...

Categories: Aberdeen, Advice, Ayr, Barony, Change your path, Edinburgh, Elmwood, HN Level, Hospitality, Oatridge, Safety, Student opportunities, and Student Successes Tags: Change your path, HNC, hospitality, and SRUC Elmwood

Have A Flippin’ Good Pancake Day!

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Rich Gordon

 Prehistoric Pancakes Historical Analyses of 30,000 year old grain grinding tools suggest that our Stone Age ancestors were as keen on pancakes are we are today.   Through the ages,...

Categories: Aberdeen, Ayr, Barony, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Hospitality, Oatridge, Student Life, and Uncategorized Tags: CollegeLife, hospitality, PancakeDay, Recipes, SRUCStudents, StudentLife, and UniversityLife
A portrait of Robert Burns

Burns’ Day

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Rich Gordon

Here in Scotland we have a proud tradition of celebrating the birthday of our Bard, Rabbie Burns. On January 25th in 1759, Robert Burns was born in Alloway in Ayrshire....

Categories: Campus, Elmwood, and Hospitality Tags: Bagpipes, Burns Supper, Haggis, Robert Burns, SRUC Elmwood, and Themes Training Restaurant
Two hospitality students cooking

SRUC Advent Calendar: 21st December

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Rich Gordon

In Scotland the tourism industry employs more than 200,000 people, making it one of the largest employment sectors in the country. Hospitality and cookery are essential parts of this industry and...

Categories: Advent Calendar 2017, Elmwood, Hospitality, and Student Life Tags: cookery, hospitality, and SRUC Elmwood
Catherine Harper and Jonathon Gray pictured with MasterChef 2017 finalist Lorna Robertson

Elmwood finalists meet MasterChef finalist at prestigious dinner

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Rich Gordon

Gamekeeping student, Jonathon Gray and Hospitality student, Catherine Harper, from Elmwood campus recently reached the finals of the awards dinner of the Field to Fork 2017 competition. Twelve students from...

Categories: Elmwood, Hospitality, Rural & Estate Skills, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, and Student Successes Tags: BASC, Cooking, Field to Fork, Field to Fork Competition, Gamekeeping, hospitality, Scotland's Natural Larder, and SRUC Elmwood
Students from SRUC Elmwood and representatives from BASC and Scotland's Natural Larder in the Themes Training Restaurant at SRUC Elmwood

Field to Fork

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Rich Gordon

Gamekeeping and Hospitality students from Elmwood recently took part in the Scotland’s Natural Larder Field to Fork competition.  The event, run by Scotland’s Natural Larder and BASC, saw students...

Categories: Elmwood, Hospitality, Rural & Estate Skills, Student Life, and Student Successes Tags: BASC, Field to Fork, Field to Fork Competition, Gamekeeping, hospitality, Scotland's Natural Larder, and SRUC Elmwood