Cornell to launch Asia's first programme for senior hospitality professionals

15 Oct 2013  2040 | World Travel News

CORNELL University and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have joined hands for the region's first hospitality management programme for senior professionals.

The Cornell-Nanyang Advanced Management Programme, open to senior industry executives with more than seven years of managerial experience, will advance students’ knowledge of hospitality management in a multinational setting by combining industry best practices with cutting-edge hospitality management theory.

Lasting four weeks, the programme is taught by faculty from Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration and NTU’s Nanyang Business School in two locations: Cornell’s Ithaca campus in New York and NTU’s Yunnan campus in Singapore.

Associate professor Nilanjan Sen, associate dean of Nanyang executive education at Nanyang Business School, commented: “As Asia’s hospitality industry grows rapidly, demand for senior hospitality leaders with exceptional skills in developing and managing change is on the rise.

“The Cornell-Nanyang Advanced Management Programme will leverage upon participants’ industry experience and equip them for higher responsibilities, putting them at the forefront of innovation amid Asia’s ever-changing business landscape.”

The first intake will be admitted in March 2014 and applications are now open.

Separately, Singapore’s Workforce Development Agency (WDA) is stepping up education efforts for the industry, having tripled the number of training places for tourism and F&B workers from 3,700 in 2011 to 11,400 now.

Training places for professionals, managers and executives in particular are expected to leap from 350 in 2011 to 3,350 in the next two years, with new courses to cover areas such as sports management, MICE and events.

New courses catering to SMEs in tourism and F&B will also be introduced.

These training places will be offered at WDA’s 10 training centres including five newly appointed institutes ­– Box Hill Institute Singapore, Eduquest International Institute, iFi Academy, Project Dignity and SHATEC.

Janice Foo, director, tourism division, WDA said: “To meet the changing landscape of the tourism and F&B industries, it is timely for WDA to boost the capabilities of the workforce and ensure that their skills are relevant and up-to-date. The appointment of the five CET centres will contribute towards developing a pool of productive local workforce to support the continued growth and effervescent developments in the tourism and F&B industries.”

Sourced: ttgasian

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