BA (Hons) Culinary Arts Management (Top Up)
Start Date: 8th September 2025
- Length 1 year
- Study Full-Time
- Location Rye Hill Campus
More about the course
Are you an industry professional or aspiring student chef looking to further develop your culinary skills and knowledge? Developed in collaboration with award-winning local chefs, restaurants, professional establishments, hospitality retail and local government, this top-up degree can help you further a career in hospitality management or food development.
Learning from tutors with Michelin star experience, you will build on your existing culinary knowledge, skills and behaviours to develop management practices required currently, while exploring gastronomy and innovation in food and the latest food trends.
You will develop the skills you need to manage and control kitchen and restaurant teams, develop and produce food whilst understanding financial constraints and legislative requirements.
Your course will conclude with your dissertation, detailing your chosen project title allowing for extensive research in the field you wish to tailor your degree.
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Meet our staff and students
Kian Marshall
FdA Culinary Arts"Studying at Newcastle College University Centre has made me more confident in my vision as a chef. The course is taught in a more practical, hands-on style and the tutors always asked what we wanted to try to cook, so it was a good chance to express ourselves and develop and skills and interests, sometimes using unusual and exotic ingredients or innovative new techniques!"
Phillip Ho
FdA Culinary Arts"Newcastle College University Centre is the only real option in the local area for an industry-standard culinary degree. The course offers lots of culinary freedom, and every day of my degree is different because my tutors push me beyond my comfort zone through working with larders, cooking pastries, or using new gastronomic techniques. It feels good to be studying a course that feels tailored to me and my preferences."
Hospitality at Newcastle College
What can I do with a qualification in Hospitality?
Daily tasks:
- Makes cake decorations, spreads icing, fillings and toppings on products.
- Bakes bread, pastry and cakes.
- Fills and glazes pastry, mixes ingredients for cakes.
- Rolls and cuts pastry, stretches, kneads and moulds dough to form bread, rolls and buns.
- Mixes ingredients using hand or machine to obtain the required consistency.
- Weighs ingredients according to recipe.
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Daily tasks:
- Plans and co-ordinates kitchen work such as fetching, clearing and cleaning of equipment and utensils.
- Ensures relevant hygiene and health and safety standards are maintained within the kitchen.
- Supervises, organises and instructs kitchen staff and manages the whole kitchen or an area of the kitchen.
- Plans menus, prepares, seasons and cooks foodstuffs or oversees their preparation and monitors the quality of finished dishes.
- Requisitions or purchases and examines foodstuffs from suppliers to ensure quality.
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Daily tasks:
- Plans and co-ordinates kitchen work such as fetching, clearing and cleaning of equipment and utensils.
- Cooks and sells a range of meals, such as fish and chips, over the counter.
- Plans meals, prepares, seasons and cooks foodstuffs.
- Requisitions or purchases foodstuffs and checks quality.
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What can I do with a qualification in Hospitality?
Bakers and Flour Confectioners
Daily tasks:
- Makes cake decorations, spreads icing, fillings and toppings on products.
- Bakes bread, pastry and cakes.
- Fills and glazes pastry, mixes ingredients for cakes.
- Rolls and cuts pastry, stretches, kneads and moulds dough to form bread, rolls and buns.
- Mixes ingredients using hand or machine to obtain the required consistency.
- Weighs ingredients according to recipe.
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Chefs
Daily tasks:
- Plans and co-ordinates kitchen work such as fetching, clearing and cleaning of equipment and utensils.
- Ensures relevant hygiene and health and safety standards are maintained within the kitchen.
- Supervises, organises and instructs kitchen staff and manages the whole kitchen or an area of the kitchen.
- Plans menus, prepares, seasons and cooks foodstuffs or oversees their preparation and monitors the quality of finished dishes.
- Requisitions or purchases and examines foodstuffs from suppliers to ensure quality.
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Cooks
Daily tasks:
- Plans and co-ordinates kitchen work such as fetching, clearing and cleaning of equipment and utensils.
- Cooks and sells a range of meals, such as fish and chips, over the counter.
- Plans meals, prepares, seasons and cooks foodstuffs.
- Requisitions or purchases foodstuffs and checks quality.
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