DIPLOMA IN HOTEL MANAGEMENT

  Institution: Olympia College

PJ – KP/JPS (KA 9373) 06/14 Ipoh – KP/JPS (KA 10190) 08/14 Penang – KP/JPS (KA 10842) 10/14

Introduction
The service industry is demanding but promising. Students are exposed to aspects of food and beverage, house-keeping, front office, marketing and management, both in theory and practical. Diploma in Hotel Management programme grooms students to be able to handle crisis, especially unexpected issues, which are common in the hospitality industry. Besides the big picture, students are taught to examine strategies and how to execute them in a way that upholds a commercially viable operation.

Course Duration
2 ½ years (inclusive of a 6 month industrial placement)

Intakes
January, April, July & September

Entry Requirement
Entry Requirement for Diploma in Hotel Management are 3 SPM credits and a pass in English or O Levels equivalent qualification OR 3 Bs and a pass in Bahasa Malaysia for UEC qualification OR Certificate in Hotel Operations awarded by Olympia College.

Grading & Assessment

• Assignments
• Mid-term examinations
• Group projects (Course Work)
• Written examinations

Course Modules 25 core subjects + industrial placement

• Front Office Management
• House Keeping Management
• Hospitality English
• Supervision in Hospitality Industry
• Introduction to Hospitality Industry
• Safety and Hygiene
• Food and Beverage Service
• Hospitality Marketing
• Food Studies in Nutrition
• Computer Applications
• Basic Cookery
• Customer Service
• Hospitality English 2
• Hospitality Accounting
• Food & Beverage Cost Control
• Procurement
• Facilities Management
• Conference & Banqueting Management
• Hospitality law
• Human Resource Management
• Kitchen Management
• Hotel & Resort Management
• Principles of Management
• Personal Development
• Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship
• Industrial Placement

LAN Modules :

• Bahasa Malaysia A / B
• Islamic / Moral Studies
• Malaysian Studies

Course Features

• Qualified experienced academic staff
• Study materials specially designed to support the programme
• Advanced standing to transfer to degree programme with UK and Australian universities according to university’s criteria.
• Local Diploma that meets the UK Higher Education standards.

Final Award Diploma in Hotel Management

Awarding Body

• Olympia College
• BTEC Edexcel, UK*
• Business & Hotel Management School (BHMS) Switzerland* *

**Terms and conditions apply

Further Studies
Students who complete the Diploma in Hotel Management will:–
a. get an additional internationally recognised Higher National Diploma award from Edexcel International, UK by completing an integrated project.
b. also be exempted from the BHMS (Switzerland) Diploma and Higher Diploma Students can also further their studies after completing the Diploma in Hotel Management/Higher National Diploma, UK, in several universities in the UK and Australia through advanced standing either into the second or final year of their undergraduate degree.

List of universities for further studies:

UK UNIVERSITIES++

• Anglia Ruskin University
• University of Bedfordshire
• The University of Bolton
• Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
• Canterbury Christ Church University
• University of Central Lancashire
• De Montfort University
• University of Gloucestershire
• University of Greenwich
• Harper Adams University College
• University of Huddersfield
• The University of Lincoln
• London Metropolitan University
• London South Bank University
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• University of Plymouth
• University of Portsmouth
• University of Wales, Newport
• University of Wales, Swansea Institute of Higher Education
• University of Ulster
• University of Westminster
• University of the West of England, Bristol
• University of Wolverhampton
• Liverpool John Moores University
• University of East London in partnership with Guildhall College

USA UNIVERSITIES++

• University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• University of Denver
• East Carolina University
• Hawaii Pacific University
• Iowa State University
• Johnson & Wales University
• Plattsburgh State University of New York (SUNY)
• San Francisco State University
• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
• Witchita State University
• The University of Tulsa

AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES++

• Curtin University, Sydney
• Curtin University of Technology, Sydney
• Edith Cowan University
• Murdoch University
• Queensland University of Technology