Cuisine training centres needed to catch 30,000 UK jobs

Setting up of cuisine training institutes in the country could open up a new opportunity of huge overseas jobs with handsome salaries for Bangladeshi youths as the British curry industry has now a demand for 30,000 skilled cooks and kitchen staffs, reports BSS.
‘The globally-acclaimed UK’s curry industry is now suffering from the shortage of cooks and kitchen staffs. Bangladesh could easily take over the opportunity if cuisine training institutes are set up,’ president of the UK-based Bangladesh Caterers Bajloor Rashid said in an interview with BSS.
He said considering the industry’s substantial contribution to the UK’s economy, the British government has of late simplified the immigration rules allowing foreign skilled kitchen staffs to the Britain.
The shortage occupation list has been amended in the simplification after BCA’s strong lobby with the British government that paved the way of recruiting foreign kitchen staffs, he said.
Asked about the reason behind the shortage of employees, he said post of cooks and kitchen staffs have remained vacant as a good number of kitchen staffs went on retirement and some others are going to be retired in the curry industry in the UK.
The BCA has decided to replace the vacant posts with young and energetic people but there is a compulsion of necessary training on cooks and kitchen.
Thus, he said, setting up cuisine training institutes is inevitable to cater the demand for cook staffs sooner than the other competing countries such as India and Pakistan in the Britain.
Rashid, however, recommended the government to take steps to set up training institutes through the initiative of the public private partnership.
There can be a state-level bilateral accord to take over the jobs in the UK’s curry industry and if the government come forward to initiate the process of setting up cuisine training institutes through the PPP, the BCA is ready to cooperate with the government in doing so, said BCA chief.
The BCA at its own initiative has undertaken a plan to set up a training institute dubbed ‘London School of Curry (LSC) in the UK’ and which already got the UK government’s approval.
Rashid also advocated that the government initially set up training institute with introduction of two years course so that intending Bangladeshi graduates could study in the LSC on completion of one-and-a-half year in the proposed government-run training institute.

Courtesy of BSS