Course details

Summary

This programme incorporates the New Zealand Diploma in Cookery (Advanced) (Level 5) and its pre-requisites, New Zealand Certificate in Cookery (Level 4) and New Zealand Certificate in Cookery (Level 3), in a fast-track option.

Students who successfully complete the New Zealand Certificate in Cookery (Level 4) will also be eligible to apply to City and Guilds to be awarded the City and Guilds Diploma in Food Preparation and Cooking.

It will prepare you to work as a senior chef, producing advanced dishes in a professional kitchen, including planning and producing a broad range of larder, meat, poultry and fish dishes, and developing and designing advanced dishes and menus.

New Zealand Certificate in Cookery (Level 3)

This programme is the essential introduction to professional cookery and will prepare you to work as a junior chef in a commercial kitchen. You'll learn how to prepare, cook and present a range of basic dishes, while learning about industry health and safety, food safety and security practices.

What will I learn?

You will learn to:

• Apply health and safety, food safety and security practices to ensure own safety and minimise potential hazards for customers.
• Communicate effectively and behave in a professional manner with colleagues, managers and customers.
• Follow standard operating procedures to deal with familiar problems in a commercial kitchen.
• Apply fundamental cookery skills to prepare, cook and present a range of basic dishes employing commodities commonly used in industry.

New Zealand Certificate in Cookery (Level 4)

This is the next step after the New Zealand Certificate in Cookery (Level 3) and will prepare you to work as an intermediate level chef, producing complex dishes in a commercial kitchen. You'll learn to prepare, cook and present a range of cold larder dishes, hot kitchen dishes, patisserie and desserts. In addition, on successful completion you will receive the City and Guilds Diploma in Food Preparation and Cooking (Culinary Arts).

The purpose of this qualification is:

• To provide for those individuals who are employed as chefs in intermediate positions, a credential that will enhance their employment opportunities in a commercial kitchen across the hospitality sector.
• To establish standards of professional practice for complex cookery that can provide customers with confidence in a range of hospitality environments.

New Zealand Diploma in Cookery (Advanced) (Level 5)

This is the next step after the New Zealand Certificate in Cookery (Level 4) and will prepare you to work as a senior chef, producing advanced dishes in a professional kitchen. You'll learn to plan and produce a broad range of larder, meat, poultry and fish dishes and to develop and design advanced dishes and menus.

The programme provides individuals who are employed in senior cheffing positions with a credential that enhances your employment opportunities in a professional kitchen.

The programme offers a specialist strand in advanced general cookery skills.

What you will learn

You will learn to:

• Select and apply staffing strategies to meet performance targets.
• Plan and monitor workflow and supplies in a commercial kitchen.
• Manage operating procedures and compliance requirements for operational roles.
• Manage staff relationships for operational roles.

Career opportunities and pathways include any role within the hospitality industry that requires chefs in senior positions producing advanced dishes in a professional kitchen.

Entry criteria

All applicants must:

• be at least 16 years old at the time the programme commences
• be able to read, write, and communicate in English at a basic level
• be physically able to complete the programme specific outcomes

Employment in the hospitality industry is an advantage, as is the achievement of cookery unit standards through secondary school education.

English Requirements:

• Academic IELTS score of 5.0 with no band score lower than 5.0
• TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT) score of 500 (with an essay score of 4 TWE)
• TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) score of 35 (with a writing score of 20)
• FCE, or FCE for schools with a score of 154. No less than 154 in each skill
• NZCEL Level 3 with an endorsement of either General, Workplace, or
• Academic
• PToE (Academic) score of 36
• City & Guilds IESOL - B1 Achiever with a score of 43