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The Tante Marie School of Cookery has teamed up with catering and event company Absolute Taste to launch a scholarship for aspiring chefs.
Posted: 30 April 2007 | 15:18
Macdonald Hotels is investing £700,000 and creating 30 new jobs by launching a new education and training centre in Scotland.
Posted: 27 April 2007 | 10:05
School’s out for summer. School’s out for ever. So might as well throw away those Tesco school equipment vouchers I guess.
Posted: 27 April 2007 | 00:00
Marco Pierre White has questioned the value of catering colleges, insisting that learning on the job is the only way for young hospitality workers to develop their skills.
Posted: 26 April 2007 | 11:35
April's star of the month is Karen Crosbie, for her work as unit manager at Longacre School in Shamley Green, Surrey. Karen, nominated by nutritionist Christine Ford, this month introduced a brain food tasting table to raise kids' awareness of which foods they should choose to "Eat right to stay bright".
Posted: 26 April 2007 | 00:00
The Welsh Assembly has launched a scholarship scheme for young chefs to increase the awareness of food and produce from the principality.
Posted: 06 April 2007 | 12:00
Samuel Johnson from Bournemouth University and the University of Portsmouth’s Sally Adams are the two winners of the Young Guns competition, which recognises the best hospitality students in the UK.
Posted: 05 April 2007 | 17:30
Caterer Elior has signed 11 more schools up to its food education programme, MiniGiant, following the decision by an Essex preparatory school to incorporate it into the curriculum.
Posted: 27 March 2007 | 12:50
David Hunter, director of Matfen Hall hotel in Northumberland, believes paying for foreign staff’s English lessons is ethical and good business sense.
Posted: 21 March 2007 | 10:26
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca Toppin has scooped education trust Springboard’s prestigious title of FutureChef 2007.
Posted: 21 March 2007 | 10:19
Recruitment remains the biggest headache facing hospitality businesses, with the hotel sector suffering most acutely, according to new research.
Posted: 09 March 2007 | 13:15
Marriott Hotels International has signed up Hospitality Graduate Recruitment (HGR) to handle its 2007 graduate recruitment scheme for the UK & Ireland and Middle East & Africa.
Posted: 05 March 2007 | 10:31
The lead inspector at the Adult Learning Inspectorate has hit back at industry criticism of college lecturers and the NVQ qualification.
Posted: 02 March 2007 | 14:31
Catering colleges have attacked the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) for failing to commit to funding City & Guilds' new professional cookery diplomas nationally.
Posted: 01 March 2007 | 08:30
The School Food Trust (SFT) has made a bid for National Lottery funding to pay for a network of cookery clubs that it hopes will change schoolchildren's attitudes to food.
Posted: 01 March 2007 | 00:00
Barely a week goes by without a dire warning about the skills shortage in the UK hospitality sector.
Posted: 27 February 2007 | 16:53
Industry leaders have welcomed last week's revelation that there has been a 30% jump in students applying to study a tourism-related degree this year.
Posted: 22 February 2007 | 11:30
By focusing too much on a youthful image the industry risks wasting a source of knowledge and talent, says consultant Dudley Seale
Posted: 22 February 2007 | 00:00
Scottish Councils are to get an extra £5m to teach children about healthy eating, as part of the Scottish Executive’s ongoing efforts to promote school meals.
Posted: 19 February 2007 | 17:23
Leading chefs have praised the impact of education body City & Guilds' new professional cookery diplomas which are halfway through their pilot year.
Posted: 16 February 2007 | 09:00
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