Hospitality: Ready, Steady, Bake SCQF Level 4

What is special about this course?

This short, full-time Bakery course is an ideal starting point for anyone with an interest in baking or working in a kitchen.

The course will focus on practical skills, at an introductory level and will feature hands-on, fun and varied activities with expert instruction from highly experienced Hospitality and Tourism Academy (HATA) Lecturers.

The core units cover baking, bread-making, cake decorating and pastry.  Time will be spent on understanding preparation, cookery processes and food hygiene and you will get the chance to work on developing a product of your own.

The Hospitality industry itself offers huge opportunity for employment and there is a real trend for baking thanks to shows like the Great British Bake-Off. Cafés and coffee shops are abundant in the local area and anyone with some good, basic baking skills will be able to find employment in a huge number of establishments of this type. There is also a sharp rise in the number of new, small baking businesses, where individuals are choosing to put their skills to good use and creating homemade products for sale.

Special features:

• Hands-on, practical training
• Qualification gained in 5 months
• Successful completion could lead to employment or a full-time SCQF Level 5 course.
• Proceeds from the sale of goods produced will go to charity.
• Opportunity to learn relevant, useful and transferable life skills.

Entry requirements

• Evidence that you can work at National 3/4 level in English or equivalent.
• You will also be invited to an interview.
• Applications are encouraged from prospective students without the standard entry requirements as listed above.

Course content:

• Craft Baking: An Introduction
• Bread Making: An Introduction
• Cake Decoration: An Introduction
• Pastry
• Food Preparation Techniques: An Introduction
• Food Hygiene for the Hospitality Industry
• Cookery Processes: An Introduction
• Health and Food Technology: Food Product Development

The course may feature local visits, guest lectures, local case studies and involvement and incentives from local businesses.

Equipment

Students will be provided with all necessary uniform (PPE) and with all necessary equipment.

Important: Funding information

If you are in receipt of any DWP benefits - Please note attendance on this programme may affect your entitlement. Please contact student services for further information and advice about sources of funding. 

Student.services.moray@uhi.ac.uk

Fees

Normally, if you are studying full time for the first time and are Ordinarily Resident in Scotland your course fees will be covered through the information you provide on your course application.

If you are studying part time and are on low income or in receipt of certain benefits your course fees may be covered by a fee waiver.

If you are not Ordinarily Resident in Scotland, you may need to pay course fees.

Please refer to our Fees and Funding section for more information

*The fees for 2023-24 have not yet been confirmed.

Funding

Our Student Finance Advisers can advise you on all aspects of student funding. The support available depends upon your personal circumstances.

Please refer to our Fees and Funding section for more information.

Additional costs

Normally, if you are studying full time for the first time and are Ordinarily Resident in Scotland your course fees will be covered through the information you provide on your course application. If you are studying part time and are on low income or in receipt of certain benefits your course fees may be covered by a fee waiver. If you are not Ordinarily Resident in Scotland, you may need to pay course fees. Please refer to our Fees and Funding section for more information.