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.
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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.