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Dawnay Day to lead way with first commercial teaching hotelDawnay Day Hotels has been lined up to run the UK's first fully commercial teaching hotel in Bournemouth. Back to the futureLast year we learnt what a group of promising trainee hospitality managers expected from the industry. Now we reveal what they think of the reality. Rosalind Mullen reports Talks to get hospitality on school diploma curriculumGovernment advisor Mike Tomlinson is in talks with the Professional Association for Catering Education (PACE) about putting hospitality training on the new secondary school diploma. School offers hygiene course for restaurantsThe Asian and Oriental School of Catering (AOSC) has launched a scheme to train more than 200 London kitchens in food and hygiene safety. Corus Hotels unveils chef training scheme
Revised school meal standards published
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About the judgesAn expert and fully independent judging panel has been selected for The Caterer Group Best Places to Work in Hospitality Awards, 2006. Dinner ladies to test skills course pilotSchool catering staff could soon be sent on a healthy food training course to help the Government hit its targets on healthy eating. People 1st, the catering sector's skills council, will pilot the course with contract caterers next week, to help them provide healthier options to schools. Catering staff will learn how to balance fat, sugar and salt in meals, and to understand how the body reacts to nutrients and minerals. Dinner-ladies will also be shown how to encourage children to eat healthy food. If successful, the training could form the basis of an accredited qualification and become the national standard. Phil Raynsford, People 1st's director of policy, research and development, said: "We wanted to help the industry meet Government compliance on nutritional food quickly and easily. We will report the findings of the pilot scheme to them at the end of March." Adrià gets university chair in food scienceFerran Adrià is to chair a new Department of Gastronomical Culture and Food Science at Madrid's Camilo Jose Cela University. Adrià made the announcement at the launch of Madrid Fusion III, the international chefs' conference held in the Spanish capital last week. College offers new scholarship for traineesA London college has announced a new scholarship in the wake of criticism from the industry about the quality of hospitality training. Arnie to ban junk food in school vending machinesCalifornian "Governator" Arnold Schwarzenegger strode into the school meals debate this week by announcing he wanted to ban junk food in the USA's state schools. Oliver challenges Government to take action on school nutrition
Roux Scholarship down to final sixEntrants for this year's Roux Scholarship title have now been whittled down to six. The line-up includes two previous national finalists, Matthew Tomkinson, from Ockenden Manor in Cuckfield, West Sussex, and Ben Webb, of Waldo's restaurant at Cliveden in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. The other four competitors are Robert Thompson of Winteringham Fields, Lincolnshire; Gary Chang June Sing, of Bank Westminster, London; Bryn Williams of the Orrery, London; and Alan Irwin of Chapter One, Locksbottom, Kent. The final competition will take place on 4 April at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park hotel in London. Past winners include Andrew Fairlie (Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles) and the current holder of the Craft Guild of Chefs' National Chef of the Year title, Steve Love. Career clinicI'm 28 and working as a chalet cook in France this winter for five months. When I return, I'd like to train to become a fully qualified chef. I have a mortgage, so I can't go back to education full-time. Could you suggest a course to follow? MP seeks power to enforce nutritional standards in schoolsSchoolchildren's whereabouts may be monitored at break times, vending machines regulated and nutritional information displayed on school meals - if new proposals by a south London MP get the go-ahead. Oliver attacks Government over school meals
Career ClinicI'm interested in becoming involved with staff training. In my job as receptionist and shift leader, I have enjoyed training front-office staff. What should I do next?
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