Course details

This is a course which allows students to explore hospitality operations with a view to re-skilling and up-skilling and exploring concepts and subject areas that may interest the learner in future programmes or employment. The course provides students with a range of hospitality service skills including customer relations, service and accommodation maintenance and food and beverage preparation. This course leads to a QQI Level 5 Certificate in Hospitality ;Operations (5M2083) and an Environmental Health Offices Association Certificate.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS 

  • A minimum of five passes at ordinary level in the Leaving Certificate or
  • Leaving Certificate Vocational or
  • Leaving Certificate Applied
  • Personal Interview

PRINCIPAL AREA OF STUDY

  • Food Preparation
  • Menu Planning and Applied Nutrition
  • Accommodation Techniques
  • Work Practice
  • Restaurant Skills
  • Reception & Frontline Office Skills
  • Customer Service
  • Word Processing

ACCREDITATION

QQI Level 5 – Hospitality Operations (5M2083)

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES/PROGRESSION

Successful candidates may pursue careers in the hospitality industry eg kitchen, accommodation or restaurant Service. They can also progress on to third level.

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Colaiste Ide College of Further Education

A word of theylcome to Colaiste Ide College of Further Education It is always a difficult decision to know what area of study one wishes to pursue after completing one's full-time education. It is even more difficult, if having left full-time education many years ago to make that decision to return again and to take up where one left off. Coming up to the Leaving Certificate they are presented with so much choice and pressure to make a correct lifetime choice that it is difficult, if not impossible, to know what is the correct option to chose. Post Leaving Certificate ctheirses have been developed with a view to providing students with options to study in their areas of interest and to either pursue those interests in Higher Education or to move directly to the workplace. They also provide mature students with a route that enables them to avail of a second chance education system that allows for the acquiring of new skills and re-acquaintance with skills acquired at an earlier stage in life.
The system of assessment used by the FETAC Accreditation system enables students to be assessed on a continual basis rather than solely on an end of year examination which can give a more accurate reflection of a student's work and results. Colaiste Ide has been providing ctheirses at this level since the mid 1970's and has developed a reputation for delivering effective and relevant career related ctheirses. Over the years, students have achieved successfully achieved what they have come to the college to study and have moved on directly into employment or on to Higher Education Institutions.
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