Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, Switzerland to help upgrade IHMs
Source: The Sangai Express / Agencies
New Delhi, March 11 2014 :
Dr K Chiranjeevi, Minister of State for Tourism (Independent Charge) announced that in a path-breaking initiative, the National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology has signed an agreement with the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Similar agreements signed between MIT and IIM-Calcutta in 1961, and the IITs with the top technology institutes of the world have made them world-class institutes.
The agreement between NCHMCT and EHL is expected to put hospitality education in the country on a new quality crest.
The National Council is an autonomous body of Union Ministry of Tourism, mandated to achieving coordinated growth and development of hospitality education in India.
It is located in Noida and has 52 Institutes of Hotel Management (IHMs) and 10 Food Craft Institutes networked to it.
These Institutes impart hospitality education, under the aegis of the council, leading to the award of Degrees, Diplomas and Certificates.
Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, Switzerland is considered the highest ranking hospitality school in the world and also among the oldest.
It has accrediting presence in 18 countries the world over.
The agreement, which has come into effect, will broadly a) review the existing curriculum, identify knowledge and skill gaps specific to the requirement of the market and recommend new inputs; b) provide for faculty development on the new inputs including inculcating global standards of academic delivery; and c) create an academic audit of the implementation of the agreement.
It is anticipated that the cooperation will help students acquire better skills and greater employabiiity.
More importantly, it will bring Indian hospitality education to an internationally acceptable quality threshold.