Tuition: per semester AU$7,998
Enhance your cookery skills and gain an understating of kitchen, operations, people and finance management for hospitality businesses with the Certificate IV in Kitchen Management SIT40521 at Victoria University.
This kitchen-management qualification reflects the role of chefs and cooks who supervise or lead teams. During your study, you'll develop the ability to work independently in a commercial kitchen setting, and learn to solve non-routine problems.
Through a blend of online learning and practical skills development, you will become a competent chef and come to understand management concepts.
You will develop expertise in the following areas:
You'll finish the course prepared to take a role in restaurants, hotels, clubs, pubs, cafes and coffee shops, or to run a small business in these sectors.
It is important to note that students will be expected to follow standard recipes to prepare meat dishes using each of the following meat items: beef, game (kangaroo, venison, specialty meats), lamb, pork, veal and offal (kidney, liver). Students will be unable to successfully complete units 'SITHCCC036 Prepare meat dishes' without meeting this requirement.
This course is nationally recognised training.When assessing your application, we consider your education, work experience, current skills and personal attributes (where relevant).
Applicants for this course will need to meet the entry criteria outlined below.
If you don’t meet the entry criteria, you may be able to gain entry by first completing a different course. We call this a ‘pathway’.
You may also be eligible for ‘Recognition of Prior Learning’, which lets you finish your course more quickly when you have gained some of the skills required from past study or work experience.
To be awarded SIT40521 Certificate IV in Kitchen Management qualification, 33 units must be completed comprising:
- 3 units must be from Group A
- 3 units may be selected from within the SIT40521 Certificate IV in Kitchen Management qualification, elsewhere in the SIT Tourism, Travel and Hospitality Training Package, or other current training package or accredited course.
As an international student at Victoria University (VU), you will be required to pay your tuition fees up front each semester.
There may also be additional materials fees throughout your studies, depending on your chosen course, as well as an administrative fee as part of your course.
Victoria University is proud to support our international scholarship recipients and sponsored students.
Graduates of this course are able to work as chef or chef de partie preparing a variety of dishes in a range of hospitality businesses such as:
You may choose to run a small business in these sectors.
