Newcastle College offers the perfect training ground if you want to begin a career in catering or hospitality. We have close relationships with some of the region's best chefs and restaurants, who support our students to gain the skills and experience needed for the fast-paced hospitality industry, including 21, Six Baltic and Blackfriars.
If you're an aspiring chef, there is no better place to train than our outstanding professional kitchens and award-winning AA College Rosette restaurant, the Chefs' Academy. Not only will you learn from experienced chefs and industry experts, but you'll gain work experience within the region's top restaurants and showcase your skills in regular competitions.
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Hospitality at Newcastle College
What can I do with a qualification in Hospitality?
Daily tasks:
- Makes cake decorations, spreads icing, fillings and toppings on products.
- Bakes bread, pastry and cakes.
- Fills and glazes pastry, mixes ingredients for cakes.
- Rolls and cuts pastry, stretches, kneads and moulds dough to form bread, rolls and buns.
- Mixes ingredients using hand or machine to obtain the required consistency.
- Weighs ingredients according to recipe.
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Daily tasks:
- Plans and co-ordinates kitchen work such as fetching, clearing and cleaning of equipment and utensils.
- Ensures relevant hygiene and health and safety standards are maintained within the kitchen.
- Supervises, organises and instructs kitchen staff and manages the whole kitchen or an area of the kitchen.
- Plans menus, prepares, seasons and cooks foodstuffs or oversees their preparation and monitors the quality of finished dishes.
- Requisitions or purchases and examines foodstuffs from suppliers to ensure quality.
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Daily tasks:
- Plans and co-ordinates kitchen work such as fetching, clearing and cleaning of equipment and utensils.
- Cooks and sells a range of meals, such as fish and chips, over the counter.
- Plans meals, prepares, seasons and cooks foodstuffs.
- Requisitions or purchases foodstuffs and checks quality.
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What can I do with a qualification in Hospitality?
Bakers and Flour Confectioners
Daily tasks:
- Makes cake decorations, spreads icing, fillings and toppings on products.
- Bakes bread, pastry and cakes.
- Fills and glazes pastry, mixes ingredients for cakes.
- Rolls and cuts pastry, stretches, kneads and moulds dough to form bread, rolls and buns.
- Mixes ingredients using hand or machine to obtain the required consistency.
- Weighs ingredients according to recipe.
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Chefs
Daily tasks:
- Plans and co-ordinates kitchen work such as fetching, clearing and cleaning of equipment and utensils.
- Ensures relevant hygiene and health and safety standards are maintained within the kitchen.
- Supervises, organises and instructs kitchen staff and manages the whole kitchen or an area of the kitchen.
- Plans menus, prepares, seasons and cooks foodstuffs or oversees their preparation and monitors the quality of finished dishes.
- Requisitions or purchases and examines foodstuffs from suppliers to ensure quality.
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Cooks
Daily tasks:
- Plans and co-ordinates kitchen work such as fetching, clearing and cleaning of equipment and utensils.
- Cooks and sells a range of meals, such as fish and chips, over the counter.
- Plans meals, prepares, seasons and cooks foodstuffs.
- Requisitions or purchases foodstuffs and checks quality.
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Meet our students and tutors
Daisy Glasper
Level 3 Culinary Arts"Newcastle College has supported me so much over the last few years, especially with all the competitions I’ve been part of! I’ve had so many opportunities that I wouldn’t have had without studying here, whether that be the tutors taking the class to Dublin to experience many different food outlets and history or us going to Malta for a two-week work experience placement. I couldn’t have had a more positive experience."
Phillip Ho
FdA Culinary Arts"Newcastle College University Centre is the only real option in the local area for an industry-standard culinary degree. The course offers lots of culinary freedom, and every day of my degree is different because my tutors push me beyond my comfort zone through working with larders, cooking pastries, or using new gastronomic techniques. It feels good to be studying a course that feels tailored to me and my preferences."
Kian Marshall
FdA Culinary Arts"Studying at Newcastle College University Centre has made me more confident in my vision as a chef. The course is taught in a more practical, hands-on style and the tutors always asked what we wanted to try to cook, so it was a good chance to express ourselves and develop and skills and interests, sometimes using unusual and exotic ingredients or innovative new techniques!"
Paola Cassarino
FdA Events Management and Hospitality"The beauty of a Hospitality and Tourism degree at Newcastle College University Centre is that, by combining the latest industry knowledge with a focus on practical skills, you're being prepared not to be an average employee, but an industry leader. The high standard of teaching here has helped me to develop confidence in my ability, and a clear sense of direction for the next steps in my career and exactly how to attain them."
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Wednesday 4th December 2024
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Wednesday 8th January 2025
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Wednesday 5th February 2025
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