Recipe for Success

30 Catering and Hospitality students studying Key Skills IT level 2 have achieved a 100% success rate.

30 Catering and Hospitality students studying Key Skills IT level 2 have achieved a 100% success rate.

Gill Parkes, Academy Director for Commercial Enterprise said” This is a tremendous achievement against a national average of 48% of students gaining this qualification.”

The students with their tutors, Michelle Jackson, Julia Calvert and Amanda Gleadall have been very enthusiastic about this subject but as essentially practical people this has not been an easy road. In addition to producing a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate their competence they have had to take an exam in the subject as well, making the feat an even more remarkable accomplishment.

Proficiency with computers and their programmes is not the first thing you would think of as being useful to a catering and hospitality student but in these days of technology, orders are taken using information technology, sales patterns are analysed, food ordering is electronic and calculating profit margins is software based. 

So the importance of developing key skills in IT cannot be underestimated and therefore the teaching of this subject in the catering department has taken on a specific relevance.

Doncaster College hosts a range of Catering and Hospitality courses.

For more information contact  0800 358 7575 or check out our website at http://www.don.ac.uk/

Updated: 30/06/2010