Education/colleges
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The De Vere Group has set its sights high and plans to train 10,000 young people as chefs and service staff over the next three years. Janet Harmer checks out three of the new training centres in Crewe and Liverpool
Posted: 30 March 2011 | 11:56
Central Bedfordshire has become the second local authority in six months to scrap a centralised school meals service and hand responsibility back to the individual schools. Croydon Council announced last August that it planned to cease its central school meal management at the conclusion of...
Posted: 29 March 2011 | 12:40
Compass Group has expanded its relationship with the University of Warwick with a new £2.25m retail contract. Following the successful operation of its Costa Coffee cafés in the university's main campus and business school, Compass will now also manage...
Posted: 25 March 2011 | 10:26
Russell Brown, head chef at Sienna, explains to Joanna Wood why it's important for chefs to take an interest in their local catering college and how his involvement with Weymouth College led to him doing a guest chef dinner
Posted: 24 March 2011 | 17:25
Rebecca Cupitt from Bournemouth University and Robyn Isherwood from Oxford Brookes University have been crowned this year's Young Guns winners. The...
Posted: 22 March 2011 | 13:02
The Government's bid to simplify vocational qualifications in England runs the risk of confusing employers even more, exacerbating hospitality's skills crisis. Chris Druce reports
Posted: 16 March 2011 | 12:29
Harrison Catering Services has today presented a brand new football kit to the Harrow High School first team. The school won the kit after they were picked from a prize draw that pupils across the borough could enter by...
Posted: 08 March 2011 | 16:05
The five grand finalists in the annual Nestlé Toque d'Or student catering competition - now in its 23rd year - have been named after triumphing in the regional heats between 12 college teams.
Posted: 24 February 2011 | 12:21
All the Hospitality Salon Culinaire 2011 medal winners, including La Parade, Live Theatre, Display Salon and Special Awards. Reported live from the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre (NEC) as the news comes in.
Posted: 24 January 2011 | 11:36
Small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) are deriving real benefit from training at UK colleges, enabling them to improve productivity and develop skills in an affordable, flexible way, according to the Association of Colleges (AoC).
Posted: 12 November 2010 | 17:17
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Richard Shepherd puts Langan’s Restaurants on the market; Premier Inn launches £199 wedding and honeymoon deal; GMB blames pub tie for decline of rural pubs and more...
Posted: 20 September 2010 | 11:06
Education caterer Taylor Shaw has won a contract to manage the three new on-site catering facilities at Blackpool Sixth Form College. The one-year-deal, worth £440,000, will see Taylor Shaw introduce a healthy eating policy ...
Posted: 08 September 2010 | 09:40
The Savoy Educational Trust has awarded a £750,000 grant to Thames Valley University (TVU) to build a new hospitality teaching and learning centre for postgraduate students. The grant will be used to build the Savoy Educational Trust Leadership Development Suite at the university in west London.
Posted: 02 August 2010 | 17:39
A team of students from University College Birmingham were today (Friday) crowned 2010 Nestlé Toque d'Or champions at an awards ceremony at London's Dorchester hotel. They beat teams from Petroc (North Devon), the College of West Anglia, Warrington Collegiate and York College in the grand final.
Posted: 16 July 2010 | 15:24
As part of the Best Practice Forum in February, catering lecturers, industry chefs and
managers, visited the world-famous Institut Paul Bocuse to view best practice from some of the top professionals in France.
Posted: 23 April 2010 | 14:33
Alan Murchison and Chris Horridge are among the six top chefs recruited as mentors for the Nestlé Toque d’Or student catering competition. The professional chef mentors have been enlisted to help York College - one of the five college teams competing - prepare to serve 100 covers ...
Posted: 12 April 2010 | 17:25
Education caterer Chartwells has been awarded a £1.6m contract extension at Sherborne Girls School in Dorset after a high achieving first year.Compass Group’s education division announced this week the signing of a new five-year deal...
Posted: 08 April 2010 | 12:00
Seven schools, seven new facilities: Dining managers at colleges and universities large and small across the country give the lowdown on their newest campus dining centers. This article first appeared in the 1 February 2010 issue of Restaurants & Institutions (R&I).
Posted: 30 March 2010 | 16:18
Acclaimed Spanish chef Ferran Adrià is set to teach at Harvard university in the USA to create and undergraduate course in culinary physics. The news comes weeks after Adrià announced that he was to close his three Michelin-starred El Bulli restaurant for two years. El Bulli, which was said to be losing...
Posted: 25 March 2010 | 10:32
Police looking into the disappearance a year ago of chef Claudia Lawrence are searching an area of York, where she went missing. Officers said the operation, which started yesterday in an area known as The Outgang in Heslington, would take three days.
Posted: 24 March 2010 | 17:27
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