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Cooking can be a comfort as well as a skill. This new cookbook aims at adding some monetary comfort to our hospitality colleagues in Christchurch as they go through the long process, post major earthquakes and continuing aftershocks, of putting their lives and businesses back together. Read more

Hospitality students at New Zealand secondary schools have risen to the challenge to celebrate cauliflower, coming up with creative recipes to show off the classic vegetable. Read more

See the latest updates from the Quality Assurance Team, including moderation information, technology changes and Hospitality CMR updated (ex AMAP). Read more

Forty-eight hospitality professionals, the majority chefs, received their National Diplomas and Certificates at the HSI Achievement Awards, some on July 26th in Wellington and others on September 1st in Rotorua. Read more

Napier's first co-ed school places a premium on building relationships and engaging students in a dynamic learning environment.

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Sweeping changes are transforming high schools to ensure thousands of pupils who will never study for degrees get the skills to find valuable careers. Read more

University entrance requirements will be raised in 2012, but students will also have four new subjects to count towards the required level. Read more

Recently we have been in discussions about providing Level 3 products for Schools. While discussions are continuing, there will be Individual Training Packs available for specifically selected units in 2012 and you will need to go through the accreditation process to be able to deliver these Level 3 units. We will keep you informed as these decisions are made and development continues.

For information on gaining accrediation for level 3 hospitality units, please contact your Regional HSI Schools Advisor.

Owing to this availability of alternative Level 3 products, the combined Level 2/3 COAs Cookery Schools 5 and Catering Schools 1 will be discontinued when 14439 and the Home and Life Sciences units in them expire in 2013.

You can continue to use and report these two COAs until the end of 2013 and the Level 2 HSI units 13272 Cook food items by baking (V3) and 13344 Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of commercial cookery methods and their applications (v3) are both available from now as ITPs.

For more information contact your local Schools Advisor.

Elliott Pinn of The George Hotel in Christchurch and Monique Rutene of Fiordland Lodge in Te Anau, showed they have what it takes to become future industry stars. Read more

HSI has identified a need to provide some learning sessions about assessment and moderation practices.

The first of these sessions will be held in November. Numbers for these sessions are strictly limited and registration is essential. See below for dates and details. Read more