A welcome message from the Academic Principal.

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the Concord Hospitality Academy Student Affairs page, and to convey our gratitude for allowing us to have a personal, social, academic and career impact on you through our educational system. We are here for you. We consider that it may be your first time knocking at our door; as a hospitality academy, the door is wide open, and we are waiting to hear from you.

The academy offers various activities that make learning not only fun but rewarding academically, skill-wise and industry-ready. We are confident that by engaging in these activities, your academy will be a better place to spend your youth days learning — and to allow us to turn you into a professional.

The academy was formed on the foundation of introducing, transferring and producing graduates who are equipped with hospitality services and culinary arts skills, knowledge and experience that is recognised locally and abroad. It is rooted in educating the public about the ways of the hospitality industry and making it easier for them to reach their dreams of being part of it. Allow us to make your dream come true.

The academy is on a quest for innovative minds, hearts and souls that truly love serving the public and helping our communities grow — through proper training, the transfer of skills, qualifications that open closed doors, and an education system that works. We are a hospitality academy, and hospitality etiquette must become our culture, engraved on our hearts.

South Africa has a great deal of hospitality services, culinary arts and pastry talent — on the streets, at home, in high schools and in orphanages — and the inability to access training providers who have their best interests at heart remains a real barrier. Our country does not only need culinary arts study opportunities; it needs hospitality services training too.

On behalf of the academy management and our colleagues, I am pleased to welcome you to an academy that serves the public with integrity, honesty, passion, transparency and professionalism. I hope your stay with us will appeal to your better nature.

— The Academic Principal, Concord Hospitality Academy