{"id":6276,"date":"2019-06-13T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/news\/2934-ta-koryfaia-programmata-epaggelmatikis-ekpaidefsis-tis-elvetikis-ecole-hoteliere-de-lausanne-ehl-gia-proti-fora-stin-ellada-apo-to-mitropolitiko-kollegio-ston-omilo-ehl-anikei-i-no1-ksenodoxeiaki\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T12:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:42:40","slug":"2934-ta-koryfaia-programmata-epaggelmatikis-ekpaidefsis-tis-elvetikis-ecole-hoteliere-de-lausanne-ehl-gia-proti-fora-stin-ellada-apo-to-mitropolitiko-kollegio-ston-omilo-ehl-anikei-i-no1-ksenodoxeiaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/news\/2934-ta-koryfaia-programmata-epaggelmatikis-ekpaidefsis-tis-elvetikis-ecole-hoteliere-de-lausanne-ehl-gia-proti-fora-stin-ellada-apo-to-mitropolitiko-kollegio-ston-omilo-ehl-anikei-i-no1-ksenodoxeiaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan College first Greek establishment to offer the vocational program VET by EHL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metropolitan College<\/strong>\u00a0announced its cooperation with\u00a0<\/strong>EHL Advisory Services, an EHL Group company\u00a0for the provision of the globally recognized tourism educational program VET by EHL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This new collaboration was celebrated at\u00a0a prestigious event in the presence of the\u00a0Ambassador of Switzerland to Greece,\u00a0<\/strong>H.E. Olaf Kjelsen, the\u00a0President of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE)<\/strong>-Mr. Giannis Retsos,\u00a0the Director of Ecole h\u00f4teli\u00e8re de Lausanne Advisory Services<\/strong>\u00a0– Andr\u00e9 Mack and many prominent personalities of the Greek tourism industry.<\/p>\n

The leading Greek College in private tertiary education\u00a0welcomes the expertise of the best Hospitality School in the world<\/strong>\u00a0(according to QS World University ranking 2019), set to offer high level educational experience based on the excellence of the\u00a0Swiss hospitality tradition<\/strong>. Through this significant collaboration, Faculty of Tourism, already 4 times awarded as “Best Hotel Education Provider”, covers the whole range of tourism training in Greece.<\/p>\n

Ecole h\u00f4teli\u00e8re de Lausanne (EHL) is the worldwide reference in Hospitality Management Education.<\/strong>\u00a0After\u00a0125 years of experience<\/strong>\u00a0as a leader, it is still indisputably the world\u2019s best hospitality management school. Located on the shores of Lake Geneva, in the heart of Europe, the institution is rooted in the Swiss sense of hospitality and embodies the country\u2019s values of\u00a0excellence and quality<\/strong>. EHL\u2019s\u00a0alumni network<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 a community of more than 25.000 industry leaders \u2013\u00a0is the largest, most professionally experienced and socially active network<\/strong>\u00a0of any hospitality management school in the world.<\/p>\n

EHL Group offers a variety of university-level programs of study in the hospitality sector, as well as professional and vocational programs. The VET by EHL program\u00a0provides the best globally Vocational Education & Training<\/strong>\u00a0for the hospitality industry and holds a leading position in the training of successful hospitality professionals worldwide,\u00a0with extensive opportunities of international careers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

VET by EHL offers courses of\u00a04 distinct and up to date streams<\/strong>\u00a0including a wide range of operation and organization skills inside the hotel units,\u00a0meeting the modern needs of the hospitality industry\u00a0<\/strong>for advanced professional skills:\u00a0Hotel Administration Diploma<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Service Professional Diploma<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Rooms Professional Diploma<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Kitchen Professional Diploma<\/strong>.<\/a>\u00a0The successful completion of each course leads to the three Certificates of different levels (Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced) and one Professional Diploma.\u00a0The VET by EHL program combines the experience and philosophy of Swiss Hospitality Education.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The launch event of this new valuable collaboration took place at Metropolitan College\u2019s Downtown Campus Lecture Hall.<\/strong>\u00a0The President of Metropolitan College, Mr Konstantinos Rodopoulos, opened the event with his welcome speech: \u201cWe are offering studies in Tourism in Greece. We have been honored four times as the best school in Tourism Education and now we join forces with the best School in Tourism which is Ecole h\u00f4teli\u00e8re de Lausanne. Having their degrees offered in Greece is innovative and extraordinary and i think this cooperation will lead to a great success”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Ambassador of Switzerland to Greece<\/strong>, H.E. Olaf Kjelsen,\u00a0made a short but utterly enthusiastic remark, mentioning the longetivity of the Swiss hospitality tradition and, respectively, Greece\u2019s tradition as a top tourist destination:\u00a0\u201cWith its all long tradition in hospitality, Switzerland recognizes the value of Greece as a place worth visiting. It seems to me that this state of mind should also take place in the fields of hospitality management education. I hope that this new partnership we are celebrating today will lead to economic opportunities and develop here in Greece\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Andr\u00e9 Mack,\u00a0Director of Ecole h\u00f4teli\u00e8re de Lausanne Advisory Services,<\/strong>\u00a0presented EHL\u2019S rising journey, as well as, its recognition as a worldwide reference in Hospitality Management Education:
\n\u201cThe mission and vision of EHL is quite simple and straight forward. We want to be the premier, world-wide reference in hospitality education. We aim at transferring our know-how to partners, to allow them become a reference, in their home-base. Our strategy is not through acquisition. Our strategy is through expansion, helping others to become also reference in their home countries.<\/em><\/p>\n

We are not in the mindset of providing diplomas, we are in the mindset of providing career opportunities. We would like to provide not only knowledge, but also skills and also mindset to the youngsters which are going through our education solutions, in order to provide talents to the hospitality industry\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

After Andre Mack’s inclusive speech, the President of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE)- Mr. Giannis Retsos, applauded this initiative between Metropolitan College and EHL:\u00a0\u201cTourism related studies have started to gain the importance and validity they deserve and are gradually becoming a conscious choice. We, at SETE, are true believers that learning never stops in an industry such as ours and we applaud this initiative between Metropolitan College and EHL\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can see the event’s photo album here:
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Metropolitan College\u00a0announced its cooperation with\u00a0EHL Advisory Services, an EHL Group company\u00a0for the provision of the globally recognized tourism educational program VET by EHL. This new collaboration was celebrated at\u00a0a prestigious event in the presence of the\u00a0Ambassador of Switzerland to Greece,\u00a0H.E. Olaf Kjelsen, the\u00a0President of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE)-Mr. Giannis Retsos,\u00a0the Director of Ecole h\u00f4teli\u00e8re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-of-hospitality","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6277\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}