Why Hospitality Education Needs a Reality Check
Authors: Giousmpasoglou, C. and Pantelidis, I.S.
Publisher: HospitalityNet
Abstract:For much of the late twentieth century, hospitality education was a model of how academia could work hand in hand with industry. The UK led the world in creating postgraduate programmes that balanced academic rigour with real-world relevance, producing graduates equally at ease in boardrooms and hotel kitchens. These programmes nurtured qualities such as leadership, resilience, creativity, and good people management, essential to an industry built on human connection.
Today, that legacy is in decline. The cause is not lack of interest or relevance but two forces from within academia itself: managerialism and academic subject snobbery. Together, they are hollowing out hospitality’s distinctive educational identity and replacing it with a diluted form of generic management education.
https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4129395.html
Source: Manual