Dip Professional Cookery L2

Applications Open - Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Applications Close - Open all year

How to Apply - Apply through KentChoices

PLEASE NOTE - Popular courses can fill up quickly so apply early to avoid disappointment

If you can stand the heat and love to cook, step into our professional standard kitchens and serve up a five-star career in hospitality and catering. Educational visits to hotels, markets and overseas destinations will provide you with a memorable learning experience and help you strive to achieve your ultimate goals. This is also an ideal programme for those already working in the industry who wish to extend their food and beverage skills, as well as for mature students wishing to change careers. Your programme will cover various practical products ranging for breads, tarts, cakes, curries, stews and tarts as well as some butchery of meat and flilleting of fish. In the theorical classes, you will learn the comodities of the various products. You will also have written assignments to complete over the course of the year. Practical work experience will also be provided in one of the College's fine dining eateries, McLeods Restaurant. You'll also have the opportunity to enter competitions, learn tips and be set challenges from a range of industry speakers, and gain inspiration for your own dishes with visits to Billingsgate Fish Market, Borough Market, Paris, Seville and the HRC trade show. On passing the Food Safety qualification, you will also receive a Level 2 Food Safety certificate.

Four GCSEs at grade 3 or above including English or maths at 3 or above, or progression from a Level 1 qualification. Relevant professional experience may be applicable.

Successful completion of the course will significantly improve your employment prospects in the hospitality and catering business, both at home and abroad. Alternatively, you may progress to an apprenticeship or further study on the level 3 Advanced Professional Cookery course.