Hospitality & Catering
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.
We offer a wide range of full and part time industry standard courses from entry to higher education level, including a wide range of professional courses necessary for the hospitality industry.
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) |
BA (Hons) Hospitality And Culinary Management (Part - Time, Blended Learning)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
BA (Hons) Hospitality and Culinary Management
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Further Education (courses for school leavers and adults at pre-university level) |
VRQ2 Professional Cookery (Full-time)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Hospitality (Full Time)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Focus on Work
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Introduction to Hospitality and Catering Skills (January 2011 start)
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: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Level 3 Diploma for Artisan Bakers
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ 1 Certificate in Food Preparation and Cooking (Part Time)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ2 in Professional Cookery
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ 2 Professional Cookery (Full Time)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
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: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ1 Introduction to Hospitality & Catering Skills - Foundation Learning (Full time)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
NVQ3 Diploma in Professional Cookery (Full Time)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
VRQ 2 Professional Cookery (Full Time)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
VRQ Level 2 Diploma in Food Manufacture - Bakery (Part Time)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Other courses |
6317 TAQA
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
BIIAB Level 2 National Certificate for Personal Licence Holders (NCPLH)
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. |
Customer Service Apprenticeship with Technical Certificate - Hospitality Industry
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Hospitality Services Apprenticeship
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Hospitality Services Apprenticeship – Food Preparation
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Hospitality Services Apprenticeship – Food Service and Preparation Combined
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Hospitality Services Apprenticeship - Housekeeping
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Introduction to Artisan Baking
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. |
NVQ level 2 in Gambling Operations (Betting)
Start Date: Call 0191 200 4000 or email enquiries. |
Team Leading Apprenticeship
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.