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
Take a look at our RPL program. Fast track your way to a formal qualification by receiving recognition for the study you have completed or the skills you've gained from the workplace.
State-of-the-art facilities
Students completing a vocational placement as a part of their course will need to adhere to their placement provider’s workplace policies and conditions of employment. This may include being vaccinated against COVID-19 and providing proof of your vaccination status. For more information and a full list of impacted courses, visit the health advice page.
News and events
FREE RPL helps recovering tourism and hospitality industry
In recognition of the critical role the industry will play in Australia's economic recovery, experienced tourism and hospitality professionals can now have their existing skills and experience recognised for free as part of TAFE Queensland's FREE RPL program.
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Iron Chef experience in Japan
TAFE Queensland students Alec Stemmler and Anne Park have rubbed shoulders with famous TV chef Hiroyuki Sakai at his restaurant, La Rochelle, in Japan.
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Le 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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