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UEI To Open 50 Hospitality Management Institutes By 2010
Posted by Pradeep Sadanapalli | April 15, 2008 | 354 views
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Loading ...United Educational Institutes, the educational venture of Berggruen Holdings plans to open 50 institutes across the country by 2010 offering courses in hospitality management. Speaking to Express Hospitality, Ashish Kesharwani, its head of hospitality, said, “We are looking at opening 30 institutes by the end of 2008.
The idea is to have a boutique institute which would provide students with hands-on training. Our programmes follow the ‘earn while you learn’ concept. Thus, students are sent out into the industry where they are trained and paid.”
UEI Global has developed the programmes in collaboration with The Hotelschool The Hague, The Netherlands and has also recently tied up with the Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. UEI offers a three-year hospitality management course for those who wish to take up hospitality management at the graduate level.
Its one-year courses offered are Grand Certificate in International Hotel Management at a post-graduate level, Foundation Certificate in International Hotel Management and certificate in Food Preparation. Apart from these courses, UEI also offers short term courses including a six-month certificate in services operations, six-month certificate in rooms division and three-month certificate in bartending.
According to Kesharwani, the six-month certificate in rooms division and services operations are targeted primarily at those who have some experience working in a hotel but do not have formal education. “There are many budget hotels and airlines coming into the country. These hotels require multi-skilled personnel who can work across all departments in a hotel, be it F&B, front office or housekeeping,” he explained.
UEI already has four institutes operational in Delhi NCR covering Delhi, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad as well as institutes in Pune and Trivandrum. In the pipeline are institutes in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Agra and Lucknow by the end of April.
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Express Hospitality
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