Tante Marie Professional Courses

Tante Marie’s professional diplomas are some of the world's most highly regarded professional qualifications and are specifically designed for those with ambitions for a career in food.

Students who successfully complete the Cordon Bleu diploma course will learn all of the professional skills required to progress with a range of different career opportunities. Examples of roles some of our past graduates are now doing may be seen by clicking ‘Past Students.'

What qualifications will I gain?
Upon completion of our professional Cordon Bleu Diploma or Intensive Cordon Bleu Diploma, our students can now graduate with TWO separate qualifications, with no additional exams to sit.

The first, Tante Marie's internationally acclaimed Cordon Bleu Diploma is an industry recognised professional qualification. It is a qualification which sets the standards in global culinary training and has been offered at Tante Marie since 1954.

The second is the Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality’s Level 4 Diploma in Professional Culinary Arts. CTH and Tante Marie created this new qualification together in 2010. This optional qualification is regulated People First, the Sector Skills Council and Ofqual and carries 96 credits within the government’s Qualifications Credit Framework. This may enable students to gain credit towards any future qualifications they may wish to take, be they at university or colleges around the world.

What will I learn on the course?
In short, you will learn everything from the core skills of classic Cordon Bleu cuisine right up to the most modern cookery techniques such as sous-vide cookery. Full details can be found in the relavent course prospectus. Our professional courses are designed in consultation with some of the industry’s leading chefs. Throughout the course, students will learn the skills and knowledge required to cook in a professional kitchen environment, they will receive lectures and demonstrations from professional specialists in butchery and fish mongery, food hygiene, wine and spirits, as well as demonstrations by some of the industry’s leading chefs. Past examples have included Angela Hartnett, Adam Byatt, Jason Atherton, Stuart Gillies and of course, Gordon Ramsay!

Classes are taught in groups of no more than 10 per kitchen, by our team of professional teaching staff, who come from a range of industry backgrounds.

As the UK’s longest established and most highly acclaimed culinary training academy, there is no better place to start your career in food. A professional knife set, recipe file and uniform are included at no extra cost.

To download a prospectus for the Tante Marie Cordon Bleu Diploma course, click the Prospectus link on this page.

Click here to go to our gallery where you can see pictures of the school and watch some videos of the students in action!