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Learn at Work or Abroad
AUT Hospitality and Tourism students gain workplace experience, with a co-operative semester of each degree spent working with an employer rather than in the classroom.
This applies for the following courses:
- Bachelor of International Hospitality Management
- Bachelor of Tourism Studies
- Bachelor of Arts (Event Management)
In addition, students taking certificate, diploma or undergraduate degree courses in Hospitality will gain workplace experience in AUT’s kitchens and restaurants.
On this pageCo-operative education
Learn outside the classroom by undertaking a work placement. You will improve your industry contacts, implement your newly gained knowledge and prepare yourself fully for your career.
Brandt Model of Co-operative Education (BMOCE)
Programme leader and senior lecturer Lothar Brandt has devised a co-operative education model for Bachelor degree students.
The model is based on the premise that selected industry partners employ our first year Bachelor students for the duration of their 3-year Degree on a paid fulltime part-time basis.
Students get the opportunity to be trained at work in all departments of a hotel (as an example). After each semester students move to other departments while incoming students take their previous position, and so on.
Students learn the theoretical workings of the industry in the classroom while our selected industry partners provide the actual practice. All hotel chains present at a recent AUT industry evening applauded the model and fully support this form of interaction between the university and the industry.
ACCOR, with 10 hotels in Auckland, will take the bulk of first semester students from 2012.
Other supporting hotel chains to adopt adopt the model are:
In addition, Eden Park Catering already supports the model. The National Bank has also expressed interest to be part of the relationship and will pilot the model on a semester basis.
Bachelor students study will undertake a cooperative education project for their employer at the conclusion of their study.
AUT’s restaurants – Piko and Four Seasons
Both restaurants are staffed by students during the semester and are open to the public for events, as well as a full lunch and dinner service. Four Seasons offers a fine dining experience and Piko a more relaxed bistro feel.
View the contact details, opening hours and menu for each of AUT's restaurants:
Global exchange
The School of Hospitality and Tourism has developed partnerships with overseas universities to develop our focus in both curriculum and research. This helps our students understand the global environment in which we operate.
AUT University has student overseas exchange programmes with the following universities
For more information, please email exchange@aut.ac.nzPutting the theory into practice - July 2009
Perzen Darukhanawalla is one of the many thousands of students studying at AUT but she’s using her time here to get some real-life experience and the most out of the opportunities that AUT offers.Hospitality is what gets Perzen out of bed in the morning and while she is studying a conjoint Bachelors in International Hospitality Management and Business (Marketing) she is gaining valuable experience working for AUT’s Commercial Services Department.
Perzen also chose to do her co-operative placement with Commercial Services after dabbling in administration and catering for them throughout the year. “While I’ll be continuing with the event side of things there I’ll also be helping to put together a marketing plan for them which focuses on internal planning and promoting the services offered.”
Perzen also took advantage of the exchange programme AUT offers and spent four months at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada studying various business papers. “It was great, the best four months of my life, I learnt so much from living by myself and meeting new people from all around the world, it was a great way to exchange knowledge and share how kiwis operate.”
“AUT is consistently changing and they make sure you change with them, they are the only university offering this kind of hospitality programme so we’re already one step ahead and working for Commercial Services at AUT is giving me an extra advantage.”