Online courses for sports and hospitality students

Liverpool FC & Pearson announce global partnership in sports education

Premier League club Liverpool FC and Pearson on Thursday announced partnership to offer international sports industry qualifications designed to provide pathways to careers in sport, fitness and physical activity for young people and adults.

Pearson and Liverpool FC will create co-branded BTEC sport, fitness and physical activity sector qualifications, available to overseas learners from September this year. The easy-to-access modular BTEC qualifications will enable learners to engage in bitesize learning, take short courses or a full two-year programme. Units include health and wellbeing, sports psychology, nutrition and fitness.

The BTEC will provide learners with a range of transferable skills and behaviours that are highly valued by employers through units in business, technology and self-employment, as well as developing the skills and knowledge to tackle two of the biggest health issues of our age – physical fitness and mental wellbeing. — IANS

VMSIIHE and Turismo de Portugal offer students from hospitality institutes a two-week online programme

As part of the existing knowledge exchange programme between India and Portugal, students from across hospitality institutes now have the opportunity to engage and participate in a 2-week online programme initiated by VM Salgaocar Institute of International Hospitality Education (VMSIIHE) in collaboration with Turismo de Portugal (TBC). Five leading hospitality institutes based in Lisboa, Setubal, Coimbra, Algarve and Douro-Lamego have curated the online course.

 Scheduled to be held from June 29 to July 10, the courses will be held over two hours each day and will cover a wide range of subjects ranging from gastronomy and wine pairing to demonstration of recipes unique to the regions to sessions on understanding the nature of food ingredients from the Mediterranean regions more closely. Virtual tours of wineries, oyster farms and the neighborhoods of Lisbon and Coimbra are included in the course.

Held from Monday to Friday for two consecutive weeks, participants will have the opportunity to interact with professors from Portugal during demonstrations and classes.

 The course will be conducted in English and is free for students of hospitality. Prior registration is required for which interested participants can reach out to VMSIIHE.