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Chef Training & Hospitality

If food and people are your passion, UCOL’s chef training and hospitality qualifications will take you far. Learn cooking/cookery, baking, restaurant supervision, staff management, service, and barista skills.

Our chef training and hospitality qualifications fall under the Services Industries Vocational Pathway.

  • A Cookery Graduate stands in the training kitchen at our Palmerston North campus
    Chef Training
    A Cookery Graduate stands in the training kitchen at our Palmerston North campus
    Chef Training
    • Diplomas
    • Certificates
      • New Zealand Certificate in Cookery
        Level 4
        Duration: 1 year, full-time
        Start:  February
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North, UCOL Whanganui, UCOL Wairarapa in Masterton, UCOL Hororwhenua in Levin
         
      • New Zealand Certificate in Baking
        Level 3
        Duration: 19 weeks, full-time
        Start:  February/July
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North, UCOL Whanganui
         
    • In School (programmes for current secondary school students)
      • Academy Cookery Programme
         
        Duration: One day per week
        Start:  TBC
        Location: UCOL Manawatū, UCOL Wairarapa, UCOL Whanganui
        Level 3
      • STAR Food Safety Programme
        Level 2
        Duration: One day per week over two weeks.
        Start:  TBC
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North, UCOL Whanganui, UCOL Wairarapa in Masterton
         
      • STAR Introduction to Bakery Programme
        Level 1
        Duration: One day a week for six weeks.
        Start:  To be confirmed
        Location: UCOL Manawatū in Palmerston North, UCOL Whanganui, UCOL Wairarapa in Masterton
         
  • Hospitality lecturer Niels Huibers shows a student how to make the perfect coffee
    Hospitality
    Hospitality lecturer Niels Huibers shows a student how to make the perfect coffee
    Hospitality
  • Arjun Singh at his workplace, Chateau Tongariro

    Arjun Singh

    Diploma in Cookery Graduate

    Arjun Singh came to UCOL wanting to expand his culinary skills. Now he’s working at one of New Zealand’s most renowned hotels.

    Meet Arjun
  • A photograph of UCOL Hospitality Lecturer Janet Tomuri.

    Janet Tomuri

    Hospitality Lecturer

    "I love my job when I see a smile spread across a student’s face when you hand back their marked assessment and they see they have passed – that absolutely makes my day.”

    Meet Janet
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