We need to prepare as a country to train more personel with no ordinary knowledge but intouch with the global hospitality industry.I must commend government for thinking ahead that the infrastructure we tend to build (thanks chinese people)need to have people with the capacity to sustain its glory.
The only thing that bugs me is while we are thinking ahead we are failing to transform what we already have.We have a hospitality school already called Malawi Institute of Tourism.
This school has trained most of the managers you may meet in our hospitality industry.The sad part of this school is that government being its mother, little is being done.In my time 2004-2007 computors were very few if not just two to be specific against 200 plus of us.This has slightly improved by now am told but the ratio still calls for action by government.
- These are young men and women who are a face of the country they need equipment knowledge before they go to the industry.Student should never go to the industry before 80% of stuff has been absorbed.No wonder hotel staff in the industry always mock them why they went to school to learn how to smile or speak or clear the table they argue its something innate or what everybody can do.We need to differentiate the service a student or any learned staff can do from that which can be performed by a man dragged from the street.
- The syllabus has to be inline with the global tourism trends
- The syllabus has to give student who want to undergo a degree programe the strength to trod on otherwise it falls short of the ladder to degree programme.
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