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The Indira Gandhi National Open University’s (IGNOU) School of Tourism and Hospitality Services Sectoral Management (SOTHSSM) has decided to open its Institute of Culinary Arts (ICA) by July next year to bring in fresh and highest parameters of excellence in Culinary Research, Development and Documentation in India.
The university has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gothenburg University, Sweden for collaboration and to support the actualisation of the ICA and the culinary research centres.
In an advisory board meeting of the ICA, updates on the activities of the Research and Documentation Centre (R&D Centre) were provided by Chef. YB Mathur of IGNOU wherein he said that, “A space of R&D centre has been allocated in the new administrative block of the university. Purchase of its equipment as well as the books for library of the centre has been done away with.”
“The curriculum of the centre shall always be evolving. Our focus is to provide train workers for kitchen. The kitchen of the R&D centre will be of amphitheater style for photography and training purposes to provide trained and ready-to-use culinary manpower to the industry. The manpower would have all types of domain skills and knowledge and fit into different job positions and resource categories of the industry,” said BK Goswami, former secretary Tourism, Government of India and Honorary Advisor for ICA.
The university has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gothenburg University, Sweden for collaboration and to support the actualisation of the ICA and the culinary research centres.
In an advisory board meeting of the ICA, updates on the activities of the Research and Documentation Centre (R&D Centre) were provided by Chef. YB Mathur of IGNOU wherein he said that, “A space of R&D centre has been allocated in the new administrative block of the university. Purchase of its equipment as well as the books for library of the centre has been done away with.”
“The curriculum of the centre shall always be evolving. Our focus is to provide train workers for kitchen. The kitchen of the R&D centre will be of amphitheater style for photography and training purposes to provide trained and ready-to-use culinary manpower to the industry. The manpower would have all types of domain skills and knowledge and fit into different job positions and resource categories of the industry,” said BK Goswami, former secretary Tourism, Government of India and Honorary Advisor for ICA.
