Awards Ceremony in Aurangabad
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:05:00 GMT
Over a hundred students from the Institute of Hotel Management-Aurangabad (IMH-A) in the state of Maharashtra in India graduated with a BA(Hons) degree this February as a result of a collaborative partnership with the University of Huddersfield. The students, 116 in total, graduated in both Hotel Management and Culinary Arts awards as a result of a partnership with the University that is now 20 years old.
The courses have a distinctive feature whereby students undertake a placement in India after three taught years at the Institute, unlike Huddersfield students who take a placement after year 2 of study. As a result most students are now moving onto graduate training posts with the Indian Hotel Company (Taj) which has a long association with the Institute and other organisations such as Marriott, Starwood or Accor.
The partnership continues to grow and widen out the scope of opportunity for students at IHM-A. Over the past two years, the partnership has seen a growing number of students from India joining the one year Hospitality Business BA(Hons) top-up course at Huddersfield. IHM-A students also now have the opportunity to spend a third year on placement split between a hotel in India and Taj’s 5 star St James’s Court complex in central London. Seven students are now working at the hotel and its Michelin starred restaurant and will move to Huddersfield in September. This is the first course of this kind to receive regulatory approval from the Indian authorities.
Huddersfield Business School was represented by Emeritus Professor Colin Bamford and Dr Derek Cameron. Prof Bamford’s address to graduates focussed on the ever-increasing role for India in the global business arena. He noted, to applause, that India had now replaced China as the fastest growing economy in the world. He added that in his view Brexit will provide more opportunities for trade and for higher educational developments between the UK and India.
