Who’s Involved – Public Sector: Stirling Management Centre

Principal Teacher: The authority made initial approaches to the Stirling Management Centre for opportunities for pupils in forth year to work with them. And that was presented to individual schools and, many years ago now, Wallace High School took up that opportunity to work with the Stirling Management Centre.

The Stirling Management Centre is located very close to Wallace High School – its in the grounds of Stirling University – and [is] run like a hotel (that’s they way the children in school would look at it) and they offer great opportunities to our pupils in a variety of different areas within that, in the hospitality industry.

Stirling Management Centre 1: The four girls that we have working with us just now… we have three currently working in the bedrooms and one working in the kitchen. They would come along and they actually work as employees here at Stirling Management Centre. We do not treat them like school children and I think that’s why our programme is so beneficial for the youngsters.

Stirling Management Centre 2: I think it lets children see what goes on in an environment outside the school environment and lets them hear what goes on in the catering industry and how things work in the catering industry. And I think it gives them an insight; they're not just coming in and making beds and not just serving people – its meeting people and greeting people.

Student 3: I think the best thing is working with the staff because they're all so nice and welcoming. They don’t treat you like a school pupil – they treat you like you're one of the members of the staff. They're really nice to you.

After school I want to be a chef. I'm going for an interview for college and I’m going to see if I can get into there and have a career in catering.