School of Hospitality

Build a Successful Career in the Traveling and Food Industries

School of Hospitality, Tourism & Aviation

Diploma Courses

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade C- (MINUS) Or Pass in Certificate.  
Exam Body: KNEC
Duration: 6 terms 
 
Module I

Course units:

  • Food & Beverage Production – Practice
  • Food & Beverage Sales and Service – Practice
  • Food & Beverage Production, Sale and Service and Catering Premises
  • Mathematics Theory
  • Communication Skills & Information & Communication Technology Theory
  • Entrepreneurship Management Project

Module II

Entry Requirements for Module II: Pass Craft Certificate in Food and Beverage OR pass Module I of Diploma in Food & Beverage

Course units:

  • Food Production Management – Practice
  • Food Commodities & Food production management – Theory
  • Nutrition, diet therapy and home nursing – Theory
  • Food & Beverage Control – Theory
  • Hospitality, Accounting, and Law relating to catering – Theory

Module III

Entry Requirements for Module III: Pass Module II of Diploma in Food & Beverage OR Not referred in more than 2 units in Diploma in Food and Beverage

Course units:

  • Food & Beverage sales and service management – Practice
  • Food & Beverage preparation, sales and service – Theory
  • Sales & Marketing – Theory
  • Human Relations – Theory
  • Management Techniques – Theory
  • Research Project

Award: KNEC Diploma in Food & Beverage Production, Sales & Service Management

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade C- (MINUS) Or Pass in Certificate.  
Exam Body: KNEC
Duration: 8 terms 

Exam requirements: Pass in KNEC Certificate OR KCSE C- & Above

 

Module I

Course units:

  • Communication skills
  • Life skills
  • Information communication technology
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Food and beverage production
  • Food and beverage service and sales
  • Housekeeping, front office laundry
  • Catering and accommodation control I
  • Catering and accommodation premise
  • Mathematics

Module II

  • Accommodation management I
  • Catering and accommodation control II
  • Diet therapy
  • Hospitality accounting
  • Law related to hospitality industry
  • Business plan

Module III

  • Accommodation operations management II
  • Principles and practices of management
  • Sales and marketing for hospitality industry
  • Human relations
  • Research methods
  • Elective modules for mod II and III
  • Food and beverage production management
  • Food and beverage service and sales management

Award: KNEC Diploma in Catering & Accomodation Management

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade D+ or Pass in Certificate 
Exam Body: Institute of Commercial Management (ICM-UK)
Duration: 6 terms 

Certificate in Hotel & Catering Supervision- Module 1

  • Fundamentals of Hotel and Catering Industry
  • House Keeping & Accommodation Studies
  • Restaurant Services 
  • Front Office operations and Administration
  • Food and |Beverage Management

Diploma in Hospitality Management- Module II

  • Hotel & Catering Law
  • Accounting, Purchasing and Cost Control
  • Human Resource in Hospitality
  • Hospitality Management
  • Marketing For Hospitality and Tourism 

Advanced Diploma in Hospitality Management- Module III

  • Strategic management in Hospitality
  • Customer Service
  • Economics And Hospitality
  • Organizational Behavior and Hospitality Management

AWARD: ICM International Diploma in Hospitality Management

Entry Requirements: OPEN 
Exam Body: National Industrial Training Authority (NITA)

Duration: 2 terms ( 6 Months)

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade C- (MINUS) Or Pass in Certificate. 
Exam Body: KNEC
Duration: 6 terms 

Module I
  • Fundamentals of Tourism
  • Tour Guiding Technics
  • ICT
  • Flora & Fauna
  • Touristic Geography
  • Touristic History
  • Entrepreneurship
  • French/German

Module II

  • Tourism Economics
  • Fundaments of Hotel Operations
  • Tour Operations
  • Tourism Accounting
  • Public Relations
  • Travel Agency
  • French/German

Module III

  • Tourism Marketing
  • Tourism Policy and Planning
  • PPM
  • Ecotourism
  • Tourism Product Development
  • Project
  • French/German

Award: KNEC Diploma in Tour Operation & Management

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade C- (MINUS) Or Pass in Cert.  
Exam Body: KNEC
Duration: 6 terms

Module I
  • Fundamentals of Tourism
  • Tour Guiding Technics
  • ICT
  • Flora & Fauna
  • Touristic Geography
  • Touristic History
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Communication Skills
  • French/German

Module II

  • Cultural Tourism 
  • Recreational Guiding
  • Natural History Of East Africa
  • Astronomy
  • Human Relations
  • French/German

Module III

  • Tourism Law
  • Tourism Marketing
  • PPM
  • Ecotourism
  • Project
  • French/German

Award: KNEC Diploma in Tour Guiding & Administration.

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade D+
Exam Body: Institute of Commercial Management (ICM-UK)
Duration: 6 terms

  • Structure of Travel & tourism
  • Numeracy & Statistics 
  • Fundamentals of Hotel & Catering
  • Characteristics Of World Destinations
  • Communication
  • ICT
  • Entrepreneurship

Award: ICM International  Diploma in Tourism,Travel & Business Studies

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade D+
Exam Body: International Air Transport Association   (IATA)
Duration: 4 terms

  • Travel Knowledge
  • Airfares & Ticketing
  • Customer Service
  • French Language
  • GDS (Amadeus)
  • ICT

Entry Requirements:  Pass in Foundation.  
Exam Body: International Air Transport Association   (IATA)
Duration: 2 terms

  • General Knowledge
  • Air Fares & Ticketing 2

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade D+
Exam Body: International Air Transport Association  (IATA)
Duration: 4 terms

  • Introduction to Airline Industry
  • Crew Responsibilities & Cooperation
  • Customer Service
  • Professional Development
  • Airline Catering
  • Aviation Security
  • Dangerous Goods 
  • Medical Emergencies

Entry Requirements: KCSE Mean Grade D+
Exam Body: International Air Transport Association  (IATA)
Duration: 4 terms

  • Airwaybill
  • Air Cargo Acceptance & Automation
  • Air Cargo Rates & Charges 
  • IATA Geography
  • Operations at Cargo Agencies

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade D+
Exam Body: International Air Transport Association  (IATA)
Duration: 4 terms

Certificate Courses

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade D (Plain) Exam Body: KNEC
Duration: 4 terms
Module I
  • Food and Beverage Production
  • Food Science and Nutrition
  • Mathematics
  • Basic Mathematical Operations
  • Information and Communication technology
  • Entrepreneurship Education

Module II

  • Food and Beverage Service and Sales
  • Food & Beverage control
  • Communication Skills
  • Catering Premises and Equipment
  • Trade Project Orientation

AWARD : KNEC Certificate in Food & Beverage Production and Service (KNEC)

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade D (Plain) Exam Body: KNEC
Duration: 6 terms
Module I
  • Communication Skills
  • Life skills
  • ICT
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Food and Beverage Production
  • Food and Beverage Service and Sales
  • Food Science and Nutrition
  • Catering and Accommodation Control-I
  • First Aid and Home Nursing
  • Mathematics

Module II

  • HouseKeeping
  • Front Office Operation
  • Laundry
  • Catering and Accommodation Premise
  • Business plan
  • Research Project

Award : KNEC Certificate in Catering & Accommodation Operations

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade D (Plain) Exam Body: KNEC
Duration: 4 terms
Module 1
  • Fundamentals of Tourism 
  • Tour Guiding Techniques 
  • ICT
  • Communication Skills
  • Entrepreneurship
  • French/German

Module II

 
  • Tour Operations 
  • Touristic Geography
  • Touristic History 
  • Customer Care
  • Project
  • Flora & Fauna
  • French/German

Award : KNEC Certificate in Tour Operation & Management 

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade D (Plain) Exam Body: KNEC
Duration: 4 terms
 
Module 1
  • Fundamentals Of Tourism
  • Tour Guiding Techniques 
  • ICT
  • Communication Skills 
  • Entrepreneurship 
  • French /German

Module II

  • Travel Agency
  • Touristic Geography
  • Touristic History
  • Flora & Fauna
  • Customer Care 
  • French/German
  • Research Project

Award : KNEC Certificate in Tour Guiding & Administration 

Entry Requirements: KCSE Grade D+ 
Exam Body: International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Duration: 3 Months (1 Term)

Artisan Courses

Exam body: KNEC
Duration: 3 Terms
Entry Requirements: Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) OR (KCSE) D- (minus) & below

Food and Beverage Production & Service involves the provision of quality food, beverage and service under hygienic conditions.

Course outline:

  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • General Studies
  • Food & Beverages Production
  • Trade Practice, Food & Beverage Service
  • Trade Theory
  • Support Subjects
  • Course Work Projects

Award: KNEC Artisan in Food & Beverage Production, Sales & Service Management

Short Courses

CoursesExamGradeDurationApplication Form
Pastry and BakeryBCEBOPEN3 MonthsApply Now
Cookery/ Food ProductionBCEBOPEN3 MonthsApply Now
     
     
     

Single Units

CoursesExamGradeDurationApplication Form
Diploma in HousekeepingICMKCSE D+2 TermsApply Now
Diploma in Front Office Operations & AdministrationICMKCSE D+2 TermsApply Now
Diploma in Food & BeverageICMKCSE D+2 TermsApply Now
Diploma in Food Production (Culinary Theory)ICMKCSE D+2 TermsApply Now
Food & Beverage Sale & ServiceICMKCSE D+2 TermsApply Now

 

Frequently Asked Questions about School of Hospitality

Hospitality courses teach you skills that are on demand all over the world. Compliment them with a foreign language for greater opportunities.

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We assist and ensure all our students get industrial placements.

Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC), International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Institute of Commercial Management (ICM).

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