Top hospitality business school EHL to work with ITE to develop new course

SINGAPORE – College students eager on pursuing a occupation in the hospitality sector can seem forward to a new qualification getting jointly formulated by a single of the world’s most prestigious hospitality schools and the Institute of Technological Education (ITE).

Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL) Hospitality Small business School – the main university in hospitality education and learning, in accordance to rankings – inked an settlement previously this thirty day period with ITE to function on a new complex diploma in hospitality and resort management.

Announcing this on Monday (March 21), Schooling Minister Chan Chun Sing claimed: “This technological diploma will offer a new pathway for those people eager to go after a career in the hospitality marketplace, and will leverage both of those the Swiss hospitality training excellence and the unique applied understanding technique of ITE.

“Graduates of the study course will be outfitted with techniques in provide chain and amenities management, and new in-need techniques these as small business analytics and sustainability hospitality procedures.”

He added that these qualities will put together students to do the job in a selection of settings in the hospitality and service sectors.

No even further facts on when the diploma class will be all set or how several learners it will acquire in had been provided.

The new training course is an example of how EHL is participating in an active purpose in Singapore’s larger instruction, stated Mr Chan, who was talking at the official opening ceremony of EHL’s initially international campus listed here.

The famed hospitality business university has extra than 4,000 college students enrolled across its a few campuses, Lausanne, Passugg, which are the two in Switzerland, and now Singapore.

Mr Chan mentioned EHL can tap the inbound links neighborhood institutions have with community and regional corporations to explore joint programmes, and share finest practices and educating approaches, such as catering to adult learners.

This comes as SkillsFuture Singapore has been encouraging non-public training institutions to do extra in adult mastering, he stated.

“I am happy to hear that EHL ideas to offer you online certificates and quick classes for adult learners,” he stated. 

He added that these will broaden upskilling opportunities and broaden job choices for individuals already in the hospitality and support field, and assist them stay appropriate and competitive.

Students at the EHL Campus (Singapore) get the similar internationally recognised Bachelor of Science in International Hospitality that is also available at the main Lausanne campus.

They begin with a preparatory year in Lausanne followed by a few many years of analyze in Singapore.