Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2010/January 2011 | Page 175

food

Island Life - December 2010

Photo: Lawrence Arnold with Yolande
preparing Seafood Mixed Grill
“That has now filtered worldwide

Bermuda, although quite a lot do come

as there is only one other provider of

from the island. Many are people who

super yacht chef courses in the world.

have decided to have a complete career

We keep in touch with some of the

change. For example one person who

students who have graduated from the

did the course was a chief executive of

college through ‘Facebook’ and some

a travel company.”

of the yachts they are working on are
incredible.
“We run the super yacht chef course

Her continued: “We have that end
of the spectrum; then we have the 16
to 19 year olds and also 14 to 16 year

four or five times a year, and the

olds who come to college to do young

students spend a week with us and

apprenticeship courses a couple of days

three weeks with UKSA. We are putting

a week. They can choose to do a young

around 40 to 50 through that course

apprenticeship qualification as opposed

each year.

to five GCSEs. There are other options

“The students are all over the world,
and the course has attracted people
from all over Europe and as far away as

for 14 to 16 year olds who study an
NVQ at college.

Photo: Zoe Butt, BTEC level
2 Diploma in Hospitality
student
Photo: Stephen O'Keefe and
Helen Smith

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