Summer Greetings from SCCD!

With SCCD Hotel School now located in The Thamada Hotel in downtown Yangon, our desire to house the school within a hotel environment to improve the learning experience and ease the transition for our students from classroom to the workplace has been fulfilled. This is one step closer to our vision of having a student-run hotel with the hotel providing workplace training and experience in a real environment.

Expanding our training footprint in Myanmar, SCCD Hotel School will launch hotel and restaurant operations training courses in Mandalay in partnership with Chindwin College ( www.chindwin.com ) beginning with the “Café and Restaurant Operations” programme in 3 rd quarter 2008. Trainees will be provided with hands-on training in Point-of-Sale system. Integral to all SCCD curricula, students will receive in-house practice at the soon-to-open Chindwin Cafes in Mandalay under supervision before taking the next step towards either an on-the-job training stint with hotels and resorts in Myanmar or abroad.

In 2008, SCCD Hotel School will continue to pursue outreach efforts through ongoing collaboration with the Swiss-run NGO - Center for Vocational Training (CVT) 3-year apprenticeship programme - Hotel & Gastronomy Assistant - to develop junior professionals for the hotel industry in Myanmar.

Moving forward in 2008, SCCD is ready to step up hotel training & education to the intermediate level with the introduction of the CTH (Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality, UK) Diploma in Hotel Management ( www.cthawards.com ) in September. The programme, aimed at educating the supervisory and mid-management tiers of the hotel industry, will be taught by a mix of Myanmar and foreign faculty.

Until the next Enewsflash, I remain,

Yours in Virtual Reality,