If you can stand the heat and love to cook, step into our professional standard kitchens and serve up a five-star career in hospitality and catering.

Educational visits to hotels, markets and overseas destinations will provide you with a memorable learning experience and help you strive to achieve your ultimate goals.

This is also an ideal programme for those already working in the industry who wish to extend their food and beverage skills, as well as for mature students wishing to change careers.

Your programme will cover various practical products ranging for breads, tarts, cakes, curries, stews and tarts as well as some butchery of meat and flilleting of fish. In the theorical classes, you will learn the comodities of the various products. You will also have written assignments to complete over the course of the year.

Practical work experience will also be provided in one of the College's fine dining eateries, McLeods Restaurant. You'll also have the opportunity to enter competitions, learn tips and be set challenges from a range of industry speakers, and gain inspiration for your own dishes with visits to Billingsgate Fish Market, Borough Market, Paris, Seville and the HRC trade show.

On passing the Food Safety qualification, you will also receive a Level 2 Food Safety certificate.