Careers:TRAINING

The three‐star Grosvenor House Hotel in Stratford‐upon‐Avon will be hosts in a unique training exercise for students from South Warwickshire College of Further Education from 23–29 March. The hotel staff will receive a bonus week's holiday, and be replaced by 75 City & Guilds catering students aged 17 upwards. They will be under the control of a senior college tutor, who will act as resident General Manager and staff all departments, with the exception of Night Porter. The project will give students real practical training in housekeeping, reception and administration, fresh food purchasing, and in maintaining a high standard of à la carte cuisine and silver service. If the operation is a success the Grosvenor will offer the facility again; and one hopes that such schemes can grow throughout the country, so that the hotel staff of the future have the best possible training — the real thing.