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Key details

Course area
Catering and Hospitality
Student types
16 - 18 coursesCourses for 19+ students
Course type
Full-time Further Education course
Course level
Level 3
Start date
Tuesday 1st September 2026
Location
City Hub 111 Canal Street, Nottingham, NG1 7HB
Course code
Parent course code:C024363 Child course code: Q024364
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Course introduction

This course is perfect you love to cook, have a creative flair and want to further develop your cooking skills to move into a supervisory role within a professional kitchen.

You’ll learn advanced cookery techniques, and combine interesting ingredients and flavours to create new dishes and menus. You’ll also learn supervisory skills as well as further developing your knowledge of food hygiene and health and safety within the catering and hospitality industry.

There is some theory content included in this course but it is mainly worked around building a logbook.

You can expect to put your skills into practice by supervising a small team in one of our commercial outlets, serving lunches and a variety of dinner menus to a wide range of customers as well as gaining real work experience in our brand new Fletcher's Restaurant in the city centre.

You will experience industry work placements and meet with professional and renowned chefs to learn from the best. There’s lots of hands-on cooking time, plus time spent researching and learning the theory of catering.

Aged 19 or over?

If you don't already hold a Level 3 qualification (equivalent to at least two A Levels, or a Level 3 vocational qualification), you can now study this course fully funded!

The Government’s new National Skills Fund programme has created new opportunities for adults, aged 19 and over, to access fully funded full-time learning.

For more information, view our Funded Courses for Over 19s page.

If you are aged 16-18 without having achieved a Level 3 qualification, you will also be eligible for full funding.

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You will be encouraged to participate in a 30-hour work placement while you are studying.

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Course information

1 year

Level 3 City & Guilds NVQ Diploma in Advanced Professional Cookery

You’ll need a full Level 2 Catering qualification OR relevant industry experience as well as 5 GCSEs at grades 4-9 (C-A*), including English Language and Maths – both of these must be grades 4-9 (C-A*) or Functional Skills Level 2 in English and Maths.

Relevant industry experience would also be considered.

Assessment is via:

  • Untimed practical tests that are graded Pass or Refer
  • Completion of a log book

Choose to follow with employment as a chef in a restaurant, hotel, public sector catering business, or you could move into a related field within the hospitality industry, perhaps exploring options to study at degree level too.

Students aged 16-18 don't have to pay tuition fees.

If you are aged 19 or over you may still be eligible for funding. Check out our Financial Help pages to find out more!

If you are an EU/EEA or Swiss National, please visit our EU Settled Status scheme page for more information.

Careers related to this course

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Chefs

Potential Earnings

£34,841.52

Average Earnings

£23,154.99

Source: Office for National Statistics' Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE).

Pathways

Accommodation, Travel and Food Services

People in these occupations provide lodging, travel, and tourism support services and prepare and serve food and beverages.

Skills

Monitoring

Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Active Learning

Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Learning Strategies

Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.

Speaking

Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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