What progression routes are available?
- The Diploma in Hospitality opens up a variety of progression routes, enabling learners to move on into further education, higher education, apprenticeship, or employment.
- It also offers young people opportunities to build experience and reputation in real work settings.
The Diploma in Hospitality gives learners the choice to progress in a variety of directions according to their individual needs and ambitions. Those directions are outlined below.
Further Education
The Diploma is an excellent route into higher-level work-related training at further education colleges. It is highly likely that Diploma students will have undertaken part of their programme at a local FE, college so they will be familiar with its facilities and will already have established relationships with its staff, who will have been directly involved with them and thus well placed to advise them about the available opportunities.
Higher Education
For students achieving the Higher and (particularly) Advanced level Diploma alongside other school qualifications, Higher Education is a viable option. The Advanced Diploma is the equivalent of 3.5 A-levels, and there is time available for more school-based learning leading to further qualifications.
The broad range of skills developed by the Diploma in Hospitality programme is very attractive to Higher Education colleges and universities.
Apprenticeships
An apprenticeship may be a particularly attractive option for those young people completing Foundation and Higher Diplomas in Hospitality who have a fairly clear idea of the type of work they would like to get into. The skills and knowledge they will have developed will serve as an excellent preparation for the apprenticeship programme, which combines regular periods of learning (often at college) with practical on-the-job training with an employer. For more about Apprenticeships, please click here.
