Over 3,000 hours were devoted to seminars, workshops and networking sessions so that students could hone their employability skills. Sessions included CV building, interview techniques and motivational talks by Industry Leaders.

On the Wednesday a careers fair was held where our Industry partners were given stands to network with students and identify future employment/graduate training opportunities.

The week was vital for students to link their studies with their overall aim of gaining employment at the end of their course.

Watch this space as Employability week promises to be bigger and better!

Fois gras lollipops and ratatouille with chicken custard, some of the culinary recipes to be taught within the unit.

With the ever increasing popularity of cookery programmes on British television, and their reliance on the science of molecular gastronomy, Manchester Metropolitan University are increasingly reliant on new technology to deliver increasingly more diverse practical skills to students.

As a result, the Hospitality Academic team are collaborating with their colleagues in the department of Food Science to conjure up new academic units that join these two strands together.

MMU has invested thousand of pounds in new equipment and lectures will soon be making use of equipment such as dehydrators, gyratory machines and 96 drop spherification modules as well as industrial smoking machines and state of the art temperature controlled water baths.

The aim of the new units will be to provide collaboration between disciplines as well as giving students the opportunity to widen their sphere of employment opportunities.

Watch this space as the courses develop further.

First year students were given tours of the faculty, introduced to the academic and support team, shown how to access library resources, the on-line learning portal, plus many more while most were still settling in to life in a new city…..perhaps being away from the family for the first time. This made it the perfecr opportunity to introduce students to the student support team, led at Hollings by Juliette Leeks. Students can access personal advice, extra-curricular support with academic tasks, plus help with languange and course transition.

Special sessions were held for our International students, helping them to aclimatise to life in another country, sometimes a new culture even.

Lots happening and this is only day one!

Second and third year students were welcomed back to campus with introductions to new members of the academic team and given a brief introduction to the subjects that they will be studying this year. Particular emphasis was placed on the importance of finding a suitable placement for next year, for those students in their second year. The team from our Placements office, led by Senior Lecturer, Nicky Smith gave students detailled information about the requirements of the placement year and the many companies that we work with, worldwide, to provide excellent placements for our student cohort. As an example we have placement students in Europe, South east Asia, Australia, Canada and North America……. there is even a placement student in Ghana this year!

Wednesday was more relaxed, we held an induction cafe in the Garden Restaurant where students could come in, talk to academics about their course and have a bite to eat. We also invited some major local employers to talk to those students who wished to find part-time work whilst studying.

Mint Recruitment have found a number of supervisory jobs with Manchester City FC, the English Premier League Champions