Education + Training: Volume 37 Issue 4

The application of a US‐originated computer‐driven restaurant management game in the development of European hospitality managers

S. Lyn Fawcett

Begins by examining the dissonance which exists between thelearning outcomes of hospitality education and the skill needs of theindustry. Following this introduction, describes a…

Maximizing the hospitality management student work placement experience: a case study

Una McMahon, Ursula Quinn

Placement is an important component of third level hospitalitymanagement programmes and is one of the most vital experiences on whichgraduates base their career aspirations. The…

Enriching student learning through innovative real‐life exercises

Stephen Ball

Hospitality management educators in British universities confrontedby a range of pressures, some of which are considered in this article,are in danger of increasingly resorting to…

Interfacing management information systems with practical restaurants in UK hospitality degree programmes

Paul Morrison, Trevor Laffin

The use of practical teaching restaurants as experiential learningresources is widely practised in UK institutions offering hospitalitymanagement programmes at undergraduate…

The attitudes of students to modular hospiltality management programmes

Nigel Hemmington

Within the context of a national trend towards modular programmesin higher education, investigates the attitudes of students to modularhospitality management programmes compared…

Applying service quality concepts to hospitality education

Andrew Lockwood

Despite a long involvement with quality in the manufacturingsector, and its more recent introduction to service industries ingeneral, education has not been at the forefront of…

Using GNVQ core skills in a degree programme

Keith Johnson

Examines the experience of final year students from the BA (Hons)hotel and catering business course who were conscripted forparticipation in a university‐wide, local TEC‐funded…