Carrick Institute of Education

Carrick Institute of Education

Carrick two-year degree a response to dramatic tourism, hospitality skills shortfall Carrick Higher Education is offering an innovative two-year Bachelor of Business (Hospitality and Tourism Management) in Melbourne for
2008.

The course is the only two-year fast track hospitality and tourism degree in
Victoria (Melbourne).

With industry forecasters (Restaurant and Catering Australia, Restaurant & Catering Australia submission to the inquiry into workforce challenges in the Australian tourism sector, Sydney, 2006.) suggesting 65,000 new jobs will be created in this sector over the next five years, Carrick has developed the degree with a particular emphasis on management. John Hart, CEO, Restaurant & Catering Australia recommended the Bachelor of Business to students.

“In today’s environment of acute skills and labour shortage, the restaurant industry knows that we cannot waste even one morsel of effort in providing skills to our future leaders,” he said.

“A well crafted degree such as Carrick’s Bachelor of Business (Hospitality and Tourism Management) provides the best start that any budding hospitality professional can hope to get”.

Catherine Carrick, Carrick Higher Education’s Managing Director said: “Carrick’s new degree course is built so our graduates will be specifically skilled to fill demanding management positions in Australia’s hospitality and tourism industry.

The degree marks the first higher education accreditation achieved by Carrick, which received final approval from the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA) in November.

“It’s a mark of how far we – and the tourism and hospitality industries – have come, that we can offer this innovative degree-level program,” said Ms Carrick.

“Carrick has always prided itself on ‘job-ready’ candidates.”

“To establish this new degree program we’ve drawn on the experience and expertise of a group of senior industry advisors and academics from across the nation,” she said.

The Carrick degree features an industry-based research project confronting real world management problems and issues under the supervision and guidance of academic teachers and industry mentors. The degree is based around six teaching periods (trisemster) and started in February 2008 with an initial intake of 20 students.

Bachelor of Business (Hospitality and Tourism Management)

Duration: 104 weeks (only 2 years)
Course Fee 2008: A$39,900 (Payment of this course can be made per trimester
at A$6,650.)

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