Diageo Learning for Life returns to support the on-trade
Diageo Learning for Life has been relaunched to support the UK hospitality sector and its hard-pressed staff, offering Covid safety training and life skills. The £1m-per-year programme, which has traditionally been focused on offering opportunities to young unemployed people in the UK to get into hospitality careers, has been repurposed as a virtual training programme …
Heineken develops Hello Beer training app for UK on-trade
Hello Beer, a new mobile training app designed to upskill bartenders on beer and cider service quality, has launched with a free trial for all UK bar staff. With much of the UK on-trade currently furloughed due to coronavirus, Hello Beer allows operators to engage staff with easily digestible mobile training ahead of pubs reopening. …
WSET to branch out into beer qualifications
The Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET), the world’s largest global provider of wine, spirits and sake qualifications, is developing a suite of beer qualifications. WSET already offers qualifications in three subject areas – wine, spirits and sake – and plans to add two beer qualifications (Levels 1 and 2) to its portfolio, both online …
CPL Learning launches Ready to Serve programme for hospitality
CPL Learning has introduced its new Ready to Serve learning programme for team members, providing employees with the knowledge and skills required to ensure a safe and effective return to work. Covering the key compliance procedures and measures, team members will be “Covid-secure” upon completion. The programme also contains several modules covering hospitality skills so …
Rémy Cointreau and Flow Hospitality provide free online training
The Rémy Cointreau Group has partnered with Flow Hospitality to offer free online training to hospitality workers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Rémy Cointreau, which is responsible for iconic brands such as Rémy Martin, Cointreau, Mount Gay rum and The Botanist, to name a few, recognises the unprecedent difficulties currently faced by the hospitality industry …
Pernod Ricard provides free online bartending training via UN partnership
Pernod Ricard has partnered with the United Nation’s EducateAll platform to provide free online sustainable and responsible bartending training. The course – entitled ‘The Bar World of Tomorrow’ – is available worldwide and targets both bartenders and bar owners to educate them on sustainable and responsible practices for a greener and more inclusive future. It …
Diageo Learning For Life goes virtual
Diageo’s employability programme Learning for Life has launched on a new Virtual Hospitality Academy, to ensure its hospitality training can continue during the Covid-19 pandemic. Created and delivered by The Springboard Charity, the ‘Virtual Academy’ is open to new applicants who are looking to develop key skills in hospitality and improve their future employability, as …
WSET ramps up digital learning
The Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) is fast-tracking its investment plans for online delivery of all its qualifications in response to Covid-19. WSET currently offers its Levels 1-4 Award in Wines and Levels 1-2 Award in Spirits as online courses. However, in response to the current situation, which forced the vast majority of its …
New e-learning platform for hospitality workers launched
UK Hospitality and CPL Learning have joined forces to develop a new online training platform for hospitality team members. The platform, entitled UKH Pathway, is free to use while businesses remain closed due to the Covid-19 crisis, and provides access to learning, wellbeing and personal development resources for furloughed employees. E-learning courses tailored by CPL …
Champion personal development, urges CPL Learning
CPL Learning, the learning and development partner to the hospitality sector, has welcomed the Government’s guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and is encouraging those in hospitality to continue supporting personal development. The company has launched a range of free learning resources to support the hospitality sector in navigating this challenging time, with over …
