Failte Ireland Cookery Course

randomcorkgirl

So hello everyone,
does anyone know anything about the failte ireland cookery course in CIT. i wanna know stuff like how long it is, and what its like and is it worth my while doing!
Love if u could get back 2 me!
XXX

Webmonkey

Hey,

This might help, I'm guessing it the course:

http://www.cit.ie/prospectivestudents/failteirelandhospitalitycourses/

Says 3 years anyways.

Course Duration
The National Apprenticeship in Professional Cookery requires attendance at the Cork Institute of Technology for some short blocks of training plus one day per week over the academic year, over a 3 year period. Successful graduates are awarded the FETAC Level 6 Advanced Certificate in Professional Cookery.

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randomcorkgirl

oh wow thanks for them links! ur great! em anyone know how the interview is cos i have one next week for it!

Webmonkey

randomcorkgirl wrote: »

oh wow thanks for them links! ur great! em anyone know how the interview is cos i have one next week for it!

Can't help you there sorry, but say you'll be grand...lecturers are nice in CIT :pac:

randomcorkgirl

Hopefully cos ive no idea whatsoever to expect i was doing arts in ucc but i dropped out cos i hated it! grrr! so i said id try this cos its something different

Webmonkey

Well if you didn't like arts then you done a good thing getting out of there asap, its hard to get anything out of it anyways as it so broad. Know of so many people after finishing arts and left with nothing. Good luck with the interview.

randomcorkgirl

Yep... it really prob was the best decision! so im going to work full time till december and then go back to college!
Thanks for all ur help...!
got any other suggestions for courses i could do! i only got 285 in the leaving but im open to any suggestions no matter what!

Webmonkey

Have you got interest in anything specific? - Even if you don't have the points, there may be ways around it. A lot of people do something at St. Johns and then move from there into CIT. Your points isn't that low to be fair, have a look what CIT has on offer here: http://www.cit.ie/courses/findacourse/

randomcorkgirl

ya i suppose there not that low!
hmmm i hate having choices! god dam!

trishawisha

Hiya I did the Professional cookery course a few years ago in CIT.
Hospitality is a different course as far as I kno.
The course I did was 2 years full time( all though you could do it 3 years part time-day release) and when it was up I got a national certificate in Professional Cookery.
I also had to have an interview with failte Ireland, Im fairly sure as long as you're totally enthusiastic about the prospects of being a chef, then its quite easy. At the time I remember my boss in the restaurant I was working in Told me to learn off some recipes just in case- i neednt have bothered but you should maybe look into Chefs that are innovators around the world right now- Heston Blumenthol and Ferran Adria.
After a couple of years working in industry Iv gone back and am now doing a degree in culinary arts, specialising in pastry.
Its a really good course, drop out rate was 2/1 though, lots of wasters in the course, do your research cos its a hard job eg Im not sure if I was to have children any time soon if I could continue in my current job....something to think about

Stephkav

I applied for the culinary arts course on the board bia site... and i was just wonderin if anyone knew when there were interviews this year or what the story with it is??? xx

Webmonkey

Hey welcome to boards.

Details of the course is here: http://www.cit.ie/courses/courselisting/culinaryartscr640/

Contact for the course is catherine.omahony@cit.ie

Stephkav

I have applied for that course through cao but i applied for it too on the board bis website too but i wanted to know if there was an interview or how i got the course incase i didnt get the points.... xx

Webmonkey

Sorry I don't know anything about the course but I'm sure you can find a contact off the board bia website. I'd still email that girl there - she might be able to point you in the right direction

Stephkav

Thanks... i just haven't heard anything since i apllied online and i was just tryin to find out... how do u no so much about the course?

Webmonkey

Oh I know nothing about the course. I'm doing computer stuff. I'm just going by the website, only here to help

Just pointing people in right direction.

Stephkav

Thats very good of u...

Webmonkey

It's no problem at all.- starting college can be scary, I know it was for me

If you have any more questions feel free to ask. I'm actually at my final week in college - going to miss the place. Never know though - might come back next year for something else.

ginsoakedboy

hi,just curious..if you did the two year course already what were the advantages of going back to collage for another 3/4 years to do the culinary arts degree..I know you said your specializing in pastry but couldnt you have just got a full time job as a pastry commi and learned just as much only probably quicker than spending another four years in collage.Thanks

trishawisha

hi,just curious..if you did the two year course already what were the advantages of going back to collage for another 3/4 years to do the culinary arts degree..I know you said your specializing in pastry but couldnt you have just got a full time job as a pastry commi and learned just as much only probably quicker than spending another four years in collage.Thanks

There are a number of ways to do a degree in culinary arts.
The straightforward way is to apply for a degree in business with culinary arts.
The way I did it was I got my certificate in culinary arts, did a few years work, working as a pastry chef, the went on for the 2 Year degree with pastry. You can do it in larder too. altogether this would be a 4/5 year way to do it. The pastry programme is one day a week for 2 years, you do other modules aswell, resulting in a degree.

Its quite difficult to get information about it all. I know from my own experience that they dont contact you about your place on the course until the last possible moment.

d'NObodyspecial

I'm having a dilemma in deciding on where my passion is (either in culinary arts or IT). Although, I've never been just in it for the money - in these desperate times I still have a hard time focusing either on a career as a chef or trying to break into the business as a network manager. What reasons did you find that motivated you to become a chef? I realise the pay isn't great to start with, but what could I be expecting to make in 5 years with all the effort put into getting to a commis chef position or chef de partie? I've applied as a mature student thru DIT & have been rejected (i think) ...i guess my plan now is to try Failte Ireland & then re-apply for the DIT course next year.

trishawisha

If I could do it all again, I would keep Baking / cooking as a hobby. The hours are cat. Friends dont understand why you cant go out etc.
In my present job I can only take 4 weekends off a year(my holidays) as they are our busiest days. Im living 60 miles away from my home town, so theres alot of family events missed.
Its great in some ways, you get instant gratification from something you've created with your own hands and people can enjoy it.
Restaurants are really struggling at the moment so Im counting myself lucky I get to take home a good wage.
If its your passion why dont you do a food related degree (food science, nutrition) and keep the creativity for home. Thats what Id do