William Angliss Institute of TAFE
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William Angliss Institute of TAFE is a TAFE institute located in the Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 CBD, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia providing a specialist centre for training and vocational education
Vocational education
Vocational education or vocational education and training is an education that prepares trainees for jobs that are based on manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic, and totally related to a specific trade, occupation, or vocation...

 in Hospitality
Hospitality
Hospitality is the relationship between guest and host, or the act or practice of being hospitable. Specifically, this includes the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, resorts, membership clubs, conventions, attractions, special events, and other services for travelers...

, Tourism
Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...

 and Culinary Arts. It is the oldest and largest provider of hospitality training in Victoria, with the capacity to train up to 1400 chefs and patissiers a year.

The Institute has an international reputation, particularly in Asia and the Pacific where it has participated in projects in China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

, Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, Malaysia, Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

, Laos
Laos
Laos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...

, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, Tonga
Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

 and Samoa
Samoa
Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...

. International joint venture campuses are located in China at Shanghai University
Shanghai University
Shanghai University is a public, comprehensive university located in Shanghai, China. The university has the longest serving President; Chien Wei-zang since 1982 until he died in 2010. He was a well known scientist in China...

, Shanghai, Nanjing Institute of Tourism and Hospitality, Nanjing, Zhejiang Tourism College, Hangzhou, China Tourism Management Institute, Tianjin.

A wide selection of study options are offered from short courses, apprenticeships, traineeships, certificates, diplomas, advanced diplomas and bachelor degrees under the Australian Qualifications Framework
Australian Qualifications Framework
The Australian Qualifications Framework provides the hierarchy of educational qualifications in Australia. It is administered nationally by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Few qualifications outside the system are accepted by employers or for...

.

Melbourne Campus

At William Angliss Institute Melbourne, students will use some of Australia’s best quality and most specialised facilities including:
  • 11 fully equipped training kitchens
  • 110 classrooms
  • 400 computer terminals
  • Three training restaurants open to the public
  • Four fully equipped training bakeries
  • Coffee Academy
  • Wine sensory evaluation centre
  • Fully equipped meat processing rooms
  • Confectionery training centre
  • Reservation training room featuring fully automated, live travel ticket system Hotel business training room
  • Three accommodation training units
  • Event Management training suite
  • Two food technology laboratories
  • Research and development kitchen
  • Food demonstration centre
  • TAB training centre
  • Free wireless internet, 100% coverage of campus
  • Commercial conference centre
  • Learning Resource Centre, a modern learning space with over 150 computers and extensive information resources
  • Medical centre on site
  • Food and retail outlets
  • Male and female retreat spaces
  • Bakeshop selling student made produce to the public
  • Smart boards in classrooms
  • Bookshop

Singapore Campus

The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) appointed William Angliss Institute in 2011 to set up an integrated CET Centre to deliver training for the Tourism and hospitality industries as well as to conduct national skills assessment for existing Tourism workers. It is the intention of WDA to collaborate with Angliss to build the Centre into a leading Tourism training institute for Singaporeans, where learning is shaped by knowledge, skills and attitudes.The values, expertise and experience built up since 1940 and as a designated Specialist Centre in Victoria, Australia, in addition to solid partnerships across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, enable the Institute to offer WDA a powerful partnership in achieving this goal.

The William Angliss Institute Tourism CET Centre will provide a range of Tourism related WSQ Qualifications. These include Certificates, Advanced Certificates and Diplomas in:
  • Attractions
  • Hotel and Accommodation Services
  • MICE and Events
  • Tour and Travel Services
  • Tourism


In addition to traditional on campus delivery methods the William Angliss Institute CET Centre will work closely with the Tourism Industry to deliver a range of short courses through to full qualifications in industry. The Institute will bring its years of experience of on-the-job training to Singapore to not only develop the skills of those students wishing to enter the industry but to further develop the skills of those already working in the Tourism sector.

Contact information

William Angliss Institute
101 Thomson Road, #06-01/06,
United Square
Singapore 307591
T: +65 6637 9855
F: +65 6637 9856
W: www.angliss.edu.sg

History

In 1940 Melbourne businessman Sir William Charles Angliss
William Charles Angliss
Sir William Charles Angliss was a butcher, pastoralist, pioneer meat exporter, businessman, politician and philanthropist in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was knighted in 1939....

 donated money to start a specialist trade or technical school specialising in providing training and education opportunities for the hospitality and foods industries. Initially called the William Angliss Food Trades School, apprenticeship courses were offered in pastry
Pastry
Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baked products made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder and/or eggs. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked products are called "pastries."...

, butchery, breadmaking and baking
Baking
Baking is the technique of prolonged cooking of food by dry heat acting by convection, and not by radiation, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones. It is primarily used for the preparation of bread, cakes, pastries and pies, tarts, quiches, cookies and crackers. Such items...

, cooking
Cooking
Cooking is the process of preparing food by use of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions. Cooks themselves also vary widely in skill and training...

 and waiting.

As links with the Food and Hospitality industries developed additional courses in hospitality administration, catering, and food and beverage service were initiated during the 1960s. Courses in Tourism were added in the 1970s. These changes lead to the school being renamed first the William Angliss College and then as William Angliss Institute of TAFE.

In 2001 the Travel and Tourism Department of the Institute developed a 3 month short course in Dance Music Event Operations, to provide training in line with the growth of Melbourne's electronic dance scene. The course received accreditation by the Victorian Qualifications Authority in 2003.

The Institute started The Coffee Academy in 2002 offering three-hour Coffee@Home courses on a monthly basis, as well as more advanced sessions in coffee sensory evaluation, fully accredited courses in Espresso
Espresso
Espresso is a concentrated beverage brewed by forcing a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure through finely ground coffee. Espresso is widely known throughout the world....

 Making using quality commercial machines and even overseas coffee tours.

Embracing technology, the Institute purchased bulk phone-PDAs in 2005 in a pilot program to run teacher designed flash animation games to help deliver innovative training, multimedia assignments and assessments for subjects such as coffee making, waiting, pastry baking, meat processing and event management.

France's most decorated chef, Paul Bocuse
Paul Bocuse
Paul Bocuse is a French chef based in Lyon who is famous for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine...

, lectured cookery students at William Angliss Institute in 2006.

Awards

The William Angliss Institute has won many training awards which include:
  • 2008 National Travel Industry Awards (NTIA) for Excellence for Angliss Travel
  • 2007 Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships for HEAT program
  • 2007 National Travel Industry Awards (NTIA) for Excellence for Angliss Travel
  • 2006 Gold Medal and Perpetual Trophy, VicTAFE Cookery Challenge
  • 2006 Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning Award - Integrated Learning
  • 2006 Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning Award - Student Team Achievement
  • 2006 Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning Award - Leaving Home Resource
  • 2005 Education and Training Merit Award for Resort Management programs, Melbourne Airport 2005 Victorian Tourism Awards
  • 2004 Education and Training Award for Resort Management programs, Melbourne Airport 2004 Victorian Tourism Awards
  • 2003 Education and Training Award for Resort Management programs, Melbourne Airport 2003 Victorian Tourism Awards
  • 2001 Outstanding Student of the Year (Apprentice), Victorian Training Awards
  • 2000 Outstanding Student of the Year (Koori), Victorian State Training Awards
  • 2000 Training Provider of the Year, Victorian Training Awards
  • 1999 Training Provider of the Year, Victorian Training Awards
  • 1998 Ansett Australia Victorian Tourism Award (Industry Education)
  • 1998 Foundation in Business Excellence, Australian Quality Awards for Business Excellence
  • 1998 Tourism Training Award for International Training
  • 1998 Public Employment Managing Diversity Award
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