Baking and patisserie
Bakers and patissiers produce bread, cakes, desserts, and petit fours for various hospitality business. As a TAFE Queensland student you'll gain practical experience in our on-campus training kitchens where you'll prepare and serve bread and patisserie items for real customers.
- Baker
- Chef patissier
- Pastrycook
- Pastry chef
Butchery
Get the skills you need to start a career as a butcher, smallgoods maker, or meat boner and slicer. Our retail butchery courses will give you the practical skills needed to identify and prepare cuts of meat, manage hygiene, and become a storage and presentation expert.
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- Butcher
- Meat boner and slicer
- Smallgoods maker
Cookery
Our cookery courses give you hands-on experience preparing salads, stocks, sauces, seafood, meat, poultry, breads and pastries. You'll graduate qualified to start a career as a food safety supervisor, cook, chef, or chef de partie in a variety of hospitality organisations.
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- Cook
- Chef
- Chef de partie
- Food safety supervisor
Hospitality
The hospitality industry offers a variety of exciting career pathways. Whether you want an entry-level, supervisory, or management position in accommodation, casinos, clubs, food and beverage, or restaurants, we have a course to get you there.
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- Caterer
- Front of house/duty manager
- Food and beverage attendant
- Housekeeper
- Restaurant manager
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News and events
Four reasons to study a diploma
If you've already completed a certificate level qualification, are ready to take the next step in your career, or want to get into university, then a diploma at TAFE Queensland could be just what you're looking for.
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Cordon Bleu partnership
Through a delicious pairing, TAFE Queensland and Le Cordon Bleu will support more hospitality students to develop their skills and reach higher standards in a range of disciplines.
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Cooking up a culinary career
Having spent 35 years in the hospitality industry running his own businesses, cooking on television and catering for Australia’s biggest stars, TAFE Queensland cookery teacher Paul Breheny has had an illustrious career few could only dream of.
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