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Episode 3 · Education Leadership Series
Leaders of the Experience Industry
International Hotel School
Four leaders at the International Hotel School in South Africa on preparing students for the hospitality industry, the pressure nobody sees, and the work it takes to build the systems a school runs on.
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Between academia and industry
The International Hotel School is a private higher education institution in South Africa offering hospitality management, culinary and postgraduate qualifications. A large part of its curriculum is work-integrated learning, where students gain practical experience in the workplace.
Matt Lambert, CEO of Invictus Education Group, the holding company for the International Hotel School, talks about running higher and vocational education under one roof, starting the school’s online offering well before COVID, balancing academia and industry, and why he chose to lead in education. Sureta Kavanagh, Desmond Devaraj and Sagrie Moodley describe the work behind the scenes: tracking attendance every week, identifying students at risk, moving records out of spreadsheets into one place, and why “building a system takes time”.
Chapters
Six parts, 19 minutes
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