Press Release
Date: Wednesday 22 March 2006 (NR/09/06)
Local teachers cooking up success with Hospitality Gurus
Local teachers have been cooking up success with Hospitality gurus. It’s all part of an innovative Hospitality Seminar developed by CCEA, the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment and the Northern Ireland Tourism Training Trust (TTT).
The Hospitality Insight Seminar provided GCSE teachers with an opportunity to hear front-line practitioners give ‘up-to-the-minute’ accounts of their work in the local Hospitality Sector.
Presentations were made by Mr Mathew Powell, Executive Chef, Malmaison Hotel; Ms Nicola McGarry, Training Manager, Botanic Inns; Ms Siobhan Mulvenna, Training Manager, Campbell Catering; Ms Stephanie Berkeley, Marketing Manager W5 and Mr James McGinn, General Manager, Europa Hotel. Mr McGinn also led the delegates on a tour of the Europa.
Chris Tracey , CCEA Principal Officer for Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism explained the rationale behind the seminar:
“What we are doing here today is giving teachers of Hospitality an opportunity to hear at first hand from industry experts the skills and attributes young people will need, to succeed in the Hospitality sector. ”
Robert McKenna from the Training Tourism Trust comments:
“In Northern Ireland there are approximately 50,400 hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism employees, 22 percent of this workforce do not have any qualifications. The sector is characterised as suffering from a relatively low skill shortages and high levels of skills gaps. In order develop a strong, dynamic and enterprising hospitality industry in Northern Ireland ; teachers need to be encouraging and enthusing young learners to study towards hospitality qualifications.”
(TTT, Regional Report Feb 2005)
CCEA’s Hospitality Insight Seminar was held in the Europa Hotel, Wednesday 22 nd March 2006 from 10am – 1pm .
GCSE Hospitality Single Award is currently operating as a pilot scheme in Northern Ireland .
TTT, Regional Report Feb 2005 can be accessed on the link below:
http://www.tttni.com/downloads/niskills05.doc
Programme
10.00 Coffee / Registration
10.15 Welcome & Introduction
10.30 James Maginn, General Manager, Europa Hotel
10.50 Mathew Powell, Executive Chef, Malmaison Hotel
11.10 Nicola McGarry, Training Manager, Botanic Inns
11.30 Siobhan Mulvenna, Training & Standards Manager, Cambell Catering
11.50 Stephanie Berkeley, Marketing Manager W5
12.10 Tour of Europa Hotel followed by lunch
Media enquiries to Ruth Maguire on (028) 9026 1216, Mobile 07796947993. E mail rhmaguire@ccea.org.uk
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Note to Editors
CCEA is the Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment.
CCEA places learners and those who have a concern for their educational and personal development at the forefront of its thinking. CCEA's mission is:
"To enable the full potential of all learners to be achieved and recognised"
What we do
CCEA is a unique educational body in the UK , bringing together the three areas of curriculum, examinations and assessment.
Advising Government – on what should be taught in Northern Ireland ’s schools and colleges.
Monitoring Standards – ensuring that the qualifications and examinations offered by awarding bodies in Northern Ireland are of an appropriate quality and standard.
Awarding Qualifications
– as Northern Ireland’s leading awarding body we offer a diverse range of qualifications, such as GCSEs, including the new GCSE Double Award specifications in vocational subjects, GCE A and AS levels, Entry Level Qualifications, and Graded Objectives in Modern Languages.
- CCEA also offers a range of Awards and Certificates in Education, Training and Skills (ACETS) targeted at learners who want to get
the knowledge, understanding and skills needed
to hit the ground running in the world of work.
