Our staff have worked in top class national and international restaurants, and you can be assured of quality teaching and learning. We have excellent links with regional businesses and many of our students secure employment through work placements.
Students have the opportunity to work within our 65 seater Bistro and the more formal Chefs' Academy, which offers high class dining. We have five modern training kitchens resourced with the latest hi-tech equipment. Students have also experienced a taste of international cuisine through an exchange programme to France where they worked in Michelin starred restaurants and hotels.
Hospitality takes you out of the kitchen and puts you in front of the customer. You will learn how to serve food and drink correctly, develop first-class customer service skills, and learn all there is to know about front of house administration.
The Lifestyle Academy at Newcastle College is one of only eight colleges in the country to be awarded a badge of excellence, from the National Skills Academy (NSA), for our superb Diploma In Professional Cookery courses.
According to the NSA, the college not only operate the fit for purpose qualification but deliver it with excellence and should be the first choice for talent who wish to forge a career in the industry.
Higher Education (university level courses) |
FdA Culinary and Patisserie Arts Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
FdA Hospitality Management Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Foundation Degree in Hospitality Management Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
BA (Hons) Hospitality And Culinary Management (Full Time) Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
BA (Hons) Hospitality and Culinary Management Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Foundation Degree in Culinary Arts Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Further Education (courses for school leavers and adults at pre-university level) |
BIIAB Award for Personal Licence Holders Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
City and Guilds Award in Barista Skills Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Diploma in Introduction to Professional Cookery Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ3 Professional Cookery (Full-time) Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
VRQ2 Professional Cookery (Full-time) Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Btec Level 3 Diploma in Hospitality (full time) Start Date: 06/09/2010 |
Focus on Work Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
International Diploma in Hospitality Management Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Level 3 Award in Supervising Customer Service Performance in Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism Start Date: 15/01/2011 |
NVQ 1 Hospitality Multi Skills Part Time Start Date: 13/09/2010 |
NVQ2 in Professional Cookery Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ 2 Professional Cookery (Full Time) Start Date: 06/09/2010 |
NVQ 2 Professional Cookery (Part-Time) Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Professional Cookery (NVQ Level 3) Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ Level 1 Certificate Food Manufacturing - Bakery Start Date: 13/09/2010 |
NVQ1 Hospitality Multi skills Full time Start Date: 06/09/2010 |
VRQ 2 Professional Cookery Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
VRQ Introduction to Professional Cookery (Full Time) Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Food Manufacture - Bakery (Level 2) Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Other courses |
Award in Providing a Healthier School Meals Service Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Basic Food Hygiene Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Dealing with Emergency Situations CDEV Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
ECON Customer Care CDEV Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
ECON Health and Nutrition Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Food Hygiene CDEV Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Food Hygiene Update Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Introduction to Cooking for Christmas Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Introduction to Dessert Cookery Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ3 Hospitality Supervision Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Advanced Apprenticeship Framework in Hospitality Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Apprenticeship Framework in Hospitality Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Apprenticeship Framework in Hospitality Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
BIIAB National Certificate for Door Supervisors (Level 2) Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
BTEC Award in Principles of Customer Service in Hospitality, Leisure , Travel and Tourism level2 Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
ECON Award in Food safety in Catering Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
CIEH Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Introduction to Confectionery Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Introduction to Confectionery Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Introduction to Italian Cooking Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Introduction to Italian Cooking Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Introduction to making Petit Fours and Canapes Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Introduction to making Petit Fours and Canapés Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
National Award in Hospitality Supervision for International Students Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NSA Master Class in Fish Preparation and Cooking Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NSA Master Class in Fish Preparation and Cooking Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NSA Master Class in Game Preparation and Cooking Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NSA Master Class in Lamb Preparation and Cooking Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NSA Master Class in Lamb Preparation and Cooking Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NSA Master Class in Shellfish Preparation and Cooking Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ 2 in Bar Service Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ level 2 in Gambling Operations (Betting) Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ Level 3 Hospitality Supervision Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Brand new £16 million Lifestyle Academy
This building, built especially for beauty, sport, tourism and hospitality students has outstanding up-to-date facilities including:
- Chefs' Academy restaurant open to the public for fine dining - gain experience of preparing three-course meals for real customers.
- 65-seat healthy-eating Bistro open to the public and operated by studetns - gain experience of cooking and serving in a busy bistro.
- Hi-tech, state-of-the-art kitchens - benefit from industry standard facilities.
Center of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) for Culinary Excellence
Our hospitality department has official CoVE status - this means that the high quality of our provision has been acknowledged by the Learning and Skills Council.
As a CoVE status facility, the Chefs' Academy is recognised as a Centre of Vocational Excellence for food and hospitality with strong employer relations.