The food we eat affects our health – how we feel today, tomorrow, and in the future. On this course, you’ll explore the complexities of the food chain, the needs and demands of consumers, and the controls that exist to ensure the food we eat is nutritious and safe.

In Catering & Cooking become a caterer and learn essential cooking skills. This course provides an opportunity to interact with and learn from very successful, highly qualified, and experienced professionals and master chefs. It also allows you to enter a profession that will continue to prosper for as long as society demands food.

You'll get the opportunity to learn food service skills in the college restaurant, Bistro 150, which operates a variety of foodservice styles, including silver service.

This Level 1 Food Safety and Hygiene e-learning course is designed to introduce the basic principles of food safety and hygiene to anyone who is a beginner in an environment where food may be prepared or stored.

This exciting and challenging degree provides science and engineering graduates with technical, operational, and business knowledge. It develops your skills for a career in food production or technical management in the food industry.

The Honours Degree in Food Technology, validated by Ulster University, has been designed to equip graduates with the knowledge and skills to enter a competitive global food processing industry.

This program is designed for those looking to build their critical understanding of the Food & Agribusiness sector. By the end of the program, learners will be able to identify business dilemmas and develop innovative strategies to solve them. The curriculum is based on our unique learning method of using real business cases, a highly interactive and digital approach that ensures continued industry relevance of the learning whilst working together as a group.

Bakery skills are in high demand in the food and drinks industry. As a baker, you will use a range of methods to produce bread and confectionery products.

This course is a good starting point for the exploration of wine styles, food and wine pairing and making the most of wine by learning about the correct storage and service conditions.

Whether you want to be executive head chef at a 5-star hotel, manage a high-profile restaurant kitchen or create new products as a development chef, our flagship culinary course will give you the skills, knowledge and experience you need. From our incredible professional training kitchens and our award-winning Restaurant at Birmingham College of Food to our cutting-edge Food Science and Innovation Suite and our expert chef lecturers, there is no place better for you to perfect your culinary skills.

Do you spend your days reviewing recipe after recipe, devouring episodes of Bake Off and Masterchef and dreaming of what culinary creation you can whip up in the kitchen? Our professional cooking course is for you! You’ll spend six whole weeks blissing out on pasta, pancakes, poultry, puddings, puff pastry, pickles, preserves and more, graduating with both the confidence and competence to embrace the next step in your culinary journey.

A Commis Chef Apprenticeship will give you valuable experience of a variety of routine food preparation and cooking activities. You will be working in a kitchen environment where your duties could include preparing and cooking a variety of dishes and maintaining a clean safe and hygienic working environment.

Gain real-life experience in professional cookery with practical training in food production, kitchen services ad professional cookery.

The MSc Viticulture and Oenology equips students with an in-depth, critical understanding of viticulture and oenology, an awareness of current research and advanced scholarship, and an ability to apply their knowledge to complex decisions unpredictable circumstances.

Have you got a passion for baking? Do you dream of becoming a chocolatier or patissier or even starting your own baking business?