Links grow with India’s Institute of Hotel Management-Aurangabad
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 12:55:00 BST
Aurangabad Hotel Management and Culinary Arts students will have the option of completing their studies in Huddersfield
VALUABLE links have been forged between the University of Huddersfield’s Business School, which is renowned for its courses and research with industry, and the Institute of Hotel Management-Aurangabad, India.
IHM-A students studying BA(Hons) Hotel Management will have the option, in the final year of their degree, to come to the UK for a year-long programme of study in Huddersfield within the Business School. Students from the BA(Hons) Culinary Arts course will have the option to come for six months.
Before they arrive in Huddersfield, Hotel Management students will have been given the unique opportunity of participating in a six-month work placement at the London 5-star 51 Buckingham Gate Hotel and Suites owned by IHM-A’s partner, and one of the world’s largest luxury hotel chains, the Taj Hotels, Resorts and Palaces, part of the TATA Group. Students are also able to work in the adjacent Quilon Michelin star restaurant.
The Taj company comprises 93 hotels in 55 locations across India with an additional 16 international hotels in the UK, Australia, USA, Maldives, Malaysia, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Africa and the Middle East.
“This collaboration now provides students with the perfect opportunity to combine academic study with global experience in hospitality,” said Professor Colin Bamford (pictured left), who has been leading negotiations with the Institute and has made regular visits to the IHM-A as a University ambassador.
“These two unique degrees – the only ones of their kind – will give the advantage of an international honours degree along with the opportunity to widen their personal experience of what is a massive global business. The domestic market also continues to exhibit year-by-year growth, consistent with India’s emergence as the third largest economy in the world by 2030.
“Those who choose to come to the UK will be in a unique position to benefit from study at the University of Huddersfield, which has been rated by QS stars as a ‘5-star university’ for internationalisation and teaching excellence. They will also gain experience of a different culture in the process and invaluable knowledge for their hospitality careers,” he added.
Initial links between the two institutions were created eighteen years ago when the University of Huddersfield provided ongoing validation for the IHM-A’s designed and delivered courses. The first consort of students from the IHM-A will arrive in the autumn of 2016.
