International Gastronomy Management (CertHE)
Are you passionate about food and keen to make an impact in the restaurant industry? This part-time International Gastronomy Management CertHE course is designed to help you build a successful career in this vibrant field. Through this programme, you’ll develop essential skills and knowledge, preparing you to work creatively and confidently in the gastronomy industry while making a positive impact on society.
Our course is structured to enhance both your professional and personal skills, equipping you for various roles across the food industry. You’ll learn the fundamentals of restaurant management, explore international gastronomy, and understand what makes a dining experience memorable. Beyond the technical skills, the course encourages you to think like a global citizen, with an emphasis on sustainable and responsible practices. These values will not only shape your career but also prepare you to be a leader in today’s ever-changing food industry.
Throughout the programme, you’ll develop essential managerial and intellectual skills. This includes the ability to think critically, creatively solve problems, and reflect on your experiences. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of restaurant management, learning how to meet customer expectations and create positive service encounters. Additionally, you’ll gain insights into food culture, marketing, and the unique aspects of managing a restaurant in different cultural settings.
A highlight of this course is the professional restaurant placement. You’ll have the opportunity to apply your classroom knowledge in a real-world restaurant setting, gaining invaluable hands-on experience. This placement allows you to build both your confidence and competence, making you ready to step into the industry after graduation.
By the end of the course, you will have developed a strong foundation in gastronomy management, including insights into the structure, management, and marketing of organisations within the sector. You will also have the skills to develop new food products and maintain high standards of food hygiene certification, preparing you to meet the demands of today’s food industry.
This course is a pathway to a rewarding career in international gastronomy, where you’ll have the chance to make your mark in a global industry.
Course details
- Part-time
- Distance Learning
- English
Undergraduate Fees
Home (Full-time): £9,535 per year
Overseas (Full-time): £15,525 per year
Why choose this course?
What you will learn
We believe in a practical, industry-connected approach to learning, blending hands-on experience with theoretical knowledge. Through close industry partnerships and continuous feedback from employers, this course stays aligned with the evolving needs of the restaurant sector.
In this two-year course, you’ll develop core skills in restaurant management and international gastronomy, and you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the restaurant industry.
You will build a solid foundation in restaurant management and international gastronomy. You’ll learn essential culinary techniques, customer experience skills, and gain insights into the global food industry. This year includes a professional restaurant placement to apply your skills in a real-world setting.
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Disclaimer
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The modules outlined above provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this course based on recent academic teaching. We continuously review our courses to ensure quality enhancement and to manage our resources. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand. Where your course includes optional modules, these are to provide an element of choice within the course. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed.
You’ll typically complete 120 credits per year of study on a full-time course. For more information visit our Student Agreement.
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You will be taught and supported by a wide range of professional staff and teams here to help you get the university experience you are looking for. Our teaching staff were ranked 2nd in Wales for Teaching, Assessment and Feedback and Academic Support (NSS 2024) meaning that the support and feedback you get will help you learn and develop strong academic skills. Our students have placed us 1st in Wales for Learning Opportunities and Student Voice (NSS 2024) meaning that there are a wide range of opportunities available to enhance your studies and that students play an active role in shaping their learning experiences. Our commitment to your learning has seen our students place us as 1st in Wales and joint 3rd in the UK for student satisfaction (Times Higher Education, 2024, ‘Overall Positivity’ measure). Find out more about our academic staff who teach across our courses.
Further information
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32 UCAS points.
Whilst grades are important, our offers are not solely based on academic results. We are interested in creative people that demonstrate a strong commitment to this subject area and so welcome applications from individuals from a wide range of backgrounds.
To assess your suitability for your chosen course we arrange interviews for all applicants at which your skills, achievements and life experience will be considered as well as your qualifications, these are held both virtually and at campus.
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At the commencement of the programme, students will attend a week long induction where they will receive information about their programme as well as assessment requirements.
Exams will not be used within the programme apart from those externally set by the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET), which is an ‘added value’ qualification.
Coursework (the primary assessment strategy) and practical tasks are set in a variety of formats; these include:
- Practical in-class exercises (e.g. debate seminars)
- Role play (e.g. mock interviews, customer-focused scenarios etc.)
- Presentations
- Learning Logs — either completed on placement or in practical in-house sessions
- Research projects
- Peer mentoring
- Video critique
- Essays
- Reports
- Work experience placement assessments.
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All additional costs detailed in this section are indicative. It is recognised, for example, that the precise costs associated with a field trip could vary from year to year.
Every effort is made to keep student costs to a minimum and as optional fieldtrips are usually planned long in advance. The academic discipline provides the opportunity for students to pay in monthly instalments.
Mandatory
- Cost of equipment — safety shoes, chefs whites, basic kitchen tool kit (including knives): estimated costs under £300.
Necessarily Incurred
- Travel to placement — every attempt will be made to place students within commutable distance of their domicile. Students are responsible for their own cost to travel to placement.
- UK fieldtrips — costs must be met by the student and will relate to travel and accommodation: likely to be under £100 per annum.
Optional
- International fieldtrips are optional and therefore the entire cost must be met by the student. Estimated costs are likely to be under £500.
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You may be eligible for funding to help support your study. To find out about scholarships, bursaries and other funding opportunities that are available please visit our Scholarships and Bursaries.
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Employability is at the heart of the programme.
As well as restaurant and gastronomy specific skills, the programme has modules that embed transferable skills of innovation, dealing with unexpected events, resilience, personal initiative and responsibility, problem solving and creativity, reflective practice and the development of an enterprising mind-set.
The practice-led teaching will be supplemented with guest lectures and frequent field trips to restaurants, food producers, specific food markets, and artisan wine and beverage producers.
Learners will also have the opportunity to receive bespoke careers guidance as well as skills development sessions to improve confidence, such as LinkedIn training to improve their online presence and mock interviews.