Category: Education
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The search is on for the LACA School Chef of the Year 2020
The search for Britain’s LACA School Chef of the Year 2020 is now underway. School chefs nationwide are being invited to showcase their culinary skills and to set their sights on scooping the 2020 trophy. The prestige of becoming the next national champion and £1000 in prize money are up for grabs! Organised by the LACA…
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Melting Pot: Teachers Pet
As the new academic year begins, we’re offering tasty solutions to help school cooks satisfy hungry young diners.Education catering is a challenging but rewarding field, and it’s important to keep up to speed with evolving food trends, whilst also adhering to nutritional standards.We asked several skilled chefs to do their homework and send in some…
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How can we Rise to the School Food Challenge
By Pandora Haydon, Food Foundation communications manager Schools and school caterers play an essential role in ensuring that enough nutritious food is available and affordable for every pupil. We’ve concluded a year-long inquiry into children’s food, led by young people themselves, and it’s clear from our findings that we can’t rise to the school food challenge…
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California Dreaming
University caterers are set to implement a range of initiatives following a successful, fact-finding trip to California. Members of The University Caterers Organisation (TUCO) embarked on a study tour to experience first hand ‘Residence Life at California’s Top Universities’.The TUCO study tour was organised by the award-winning TUCO Academy as part of its learning and…
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The Hotel with a Heart
> Foxes Hotel in Minehead is a guest house like no other. Standing proudly on the seafront with a backdrop of Exmoor, it is the only training hotel in the UK for people with learning disabilities. It’s unique in that it is a fully functioning – and extremely busy – hotel with paying guests, with…
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Woodlands Primary School crowned McDougalls winners
Pupils from Country Range Group customer Woodlands Primary School have been named the 2019 McDougalls Young Baking Team of the Year. The winning team from Formby, Liverpool, cooked its way to first place with its Woodlands Garden, impressing judges with the incredible presentation and attention to detail, achieving the highest score ever in the five…
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Cambridge Uni joins the swarm of interest in insects
Buffalo worm and cricket falafel feature on the menu at the first University of Cambridge insect-based Formal Hall As part of their commitment to sustainability, the University of Cambridge Catering Manager’s Committee (CMC) has hosted a unique event to embrace entomophagy – the practice of eating insects. The ‘Formal Hall’, as the name suggests, was…
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School lunches- LIVESTREAMED
School caterers (and parents) are always looking for ways to entice children to try new things – and a school federation in east London has come up with a very innovative and hugely successful approach. The New Wave Federation comprises three primary schools in Hackney, and their catering teams prepare meals for over 1,000 hungry…
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Education: New Law for Life Saving Epipens in Campus Canteens
A leading university nurse has joined forces with an expert in food allergens to call for college and university caterers to be allowed to stock epipens for use in medical emergencies. Emma Dellar, of the Cambridge College Nurse Association, has teamed up with Jacqui McPeake, the former head of catering at Manchester Metropolitan University who…
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Education: UFSM- For all Primary School Children is Top Class
A report measuring the success of offering Universal Free School Meals (UFSM) to all primary school children has unveiled its findings. For the last eight years, Islington Council in north London, has made UFSM available to pupils age 4-11. Under the Government’s criteria for UFSM implemented in 2014, only children in Reception and Year 1…