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Paul's supporting our Local Food Hero in the Culinary Six Nations

Udny Green and Mid Formartine Councillor Paul Johnston is not watching the oval ball but the Oval plate in supporting Kilted Chef Craig Wilson of Eat on The Green, who this afternoon goes live into the kitchen on Irish Television in a culinary Six Nations Championship.

The Irish TV channel RTE1 Afternoon Show is doing the international six nation cook off with Craig wearing the Blue of Scotland (And his kilt?). Nominated by TV personality Lorraine Kelly to represent the nation, he has flown off to Dublin to be up against Home side Ireland in the form of celebrity Chef and Michelin Star winner, Oliver Dunne.

Paul Johnston, who is the local Councillor for Udny Green in the Mid Formartine Ward, said: “This is a great accolade for Craig to represent the nation. He is our own local Food Hero and all locally will hope the Kilted Chef will triumph. I may be half Irish myself but this is local and national pride in Scottish culinary skills and produce – so I’m backing Craig Wilson to win”

“I believe local produce and local food in the north east, as one of the keys to our economic future. Craig is a local Food hero who has shown through his practice and talent what the north east has to offer.”

More information and watch online at:
http://www.rte.ie/tv/theafternoonshow/2010/0319/weeklymealplanwithkevindundonweek2879.html

March 19th, 2010 | Category: News

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  • Exams and Scottish Higher Education
    August 5, 2010 | 7:21 pm

    On the day that Scottish Exam results drop through the letterboxes of expecting students, there remains the unresolved debate about the future of higher education that underlies all the comments that will flow forth from the great and good.

    My concerns that commentators will rubbish the results again, as they do when any increase in pass rates are announced.  The requirements of any qualification change with time.  It does not mean it gets easier – it can, but there is no evidence that it actually has.  But there is evidence it has changed in another way.

    Change in the the topics covered by exams have always happened.  How many doing Maths now would be able to handle a slide rule?  In my day, it was part of the exam.  Now students would no know what a slide rule was.

    For all those who are tempted to suggest the utter nonsense of advising students not to go to further Education but study things that industry bosses want now, could I enter the thought that we are really teaching people for occupations in technologies and systems that have not even been invented yet.  Such is the challenge of the future.

    Congratulations to all students in your results.  I just hope that the generation currently making decisions about your futures, your higher education places and the very sustainability of the Country, will not indulge in the short term thinking of ‘government spending’.  I hope they will have the courage for the investment in peoples’ futures and not our selfish present.

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