Anna Calligeros at the William Blue International Hotel Management School.

Continuing the Calligeros story...

Anna Calligeros - Lecturer in Food and Beverage Diploma in hotel management.
Certificate IV in Workplace training and assessment.

After several years with the Hilton Group, Anna specialised in pre-opening for Hotel Nikko and Star City. As Training and Development Manager responsible for recruitment, selection, induction of all front of house operations including 14 bars and restaurants and the International Hotel, she has spent much of her time in the last few years writing curriculum for accreditation including RSA, Cultural Awareness, Workplace Hygiene and Safety.

At the William Blue International Hotel Management School all lecturers are currently employed within the industry or are currently associated with major industry leaders. William Blue feel it is important for students to be taught by and to make contact with people who are high achievers in the industry. People with extensive and diverse backgrounds in all areas of hospitality operations and senior management.

About the William Blue International Hotel Management School

http://www.billyblue.com.au/hotel/about.html

Hotel Management offers many different career options. Graduates work in resort management, sales and marketing, convention management, restaurant and café management, finance, Human Resources to name but some.

Your career in hotel management can provide the opportunity for an exciting lifestyle. For example, you could start with a major international hotel chain in Australia, and as your expertise develops, you could transfer to another of their hotels anywhere in the world.

Although the variety and opportunities are spectacular, hotel management is an industry where a purely academic education is not enough to make it to the top. What you also need is the ability to connect with people and make them feel welcome and comfortable and a willingness to learn and work toward achieving your goals.

Study in Sydney. Be a Success Right Around the World!

William Blue was the first truly international Hotel Management School in Sydney. It is a modern, dynamic and exclusive school. The campus is located close to the city and to the same 5 star hotels which employ the students and graduates, and hosted the world for the 2000 Olympic Games.

Benefits

- The central location provides easy access to work opportunities and transport;

- No expensive live-in requirements.

- The dual qualification of the American Diploma in Hospitality Management and the Australian Advanced Diploma in Hospitality (Management) majoring in convention and Resort Management provides students with qualifications recognised world-wide.

- Range of accelerated degree options for third-year studies.

- The student-run commercial restaurant, Billy Blue Brasserie is fully licensed, and provides the training venue for the Food & Beverage component of the program.

- The 175-bed private hotel, Billy Blue Palace, is an option for students needing residential accommodation.

- William Blue is the Australian licensee of the Education Institute (EI) for the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA). It is the largest training body for hospitality in the world. Their international diploma is recognised in 163 countries.

Earn while you study
The School helps and encourages students to work part time in the industry during the course. Nearly 90% of the students elect to work, and in the two years of the Advanced Diploma course can earn between $16,000 and $36,000.

Hospitality: one of the fastest growing international industries
The expansion of a career in Hotel Management has gone hand-in-hand with the dramatic increases in world-wide tourism. As a result, the traditional international career paths in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing and Rooms Division have been expanded to include Resort, Convention and Event Management.

William Blue is the Australian licensee of the Education Institute
(EI) for the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA). It is the largest training body for hospitality in the world. Their international diploma is recognised in 163 countries.

To ensure we keep pace with the expanding industry, William Blue was instrumental in setting up the Association of Australian Hotel Schools to lobby government, develop best practice principals between all member organisations and track innovation in the hospitality industry. As a founding member of the Association, we are dedicated to excellence in the field of Hotel and Tourism Management Education.

Location

The William Blue Campus

The school is located in North Sydney, a few kilometres from the centre of Sydney.

The school has a professional kitchen servicing a 65 seat restaurant, Billy Blue Brasserie, on campus. As the Brasserie is a very popular North Sydney venue, it is a perfect place for students to learn about fine dining preparation and service, in a real environment, from their first semester of study.

Immigrants from more than 200 countries have come here in the last 50 years to live in a city that extends from the South Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west. It is a city of beaches and cafes with possibly the most varied cuisine anywhere in the world. Its an exciting city to live in.

Address:

Billy Blue Schools Head Office
Level 8, Northpoint
171 Pacific Hwy
PO Box 728
North Sydney
NSW 2059 Australia
Telephone: (+61 2) 9955 1122
Facsimile: (+61 2) 9957 1811