Culinary academy
offers paid internships

After withstanding the heat in the kitchen, what’s next for hopeful students? At the Academy for International Culinary Arts (AICA), students enrolled in the school’s diploma program now have the option of applying the skills they learned in a paid six-month internship abroad.

To help students find the right establishment, the school has partnered with agencies tasked to facilitate international placements.

"Internship is very important for culinary students,’ says Michael Tiaoqui, AICA’s president. "It becomes the true test of everything they learned."

The school is offering two options for interested students. The first choice is the academy and the partnered agency will lay out the available internship programs for the students or that students will specify their preferred program then the school and the agency will be the one to make the proper arrangements and will inform the students if they are accepted.

The academy’s Nine-month Diploma in International Culinary Arts Management prepares students in the real world kitchen experience by teaching the basic theories and methods. To better train aspiring chefs, it accommodates 14 students per class and offers practical 90/10 hands on learning and classroom lecture policy, thereby giving it the lowest instructor to student ratio. Since students spend 90 percent of their time in the kitchen, it ensures that they have more opportunities to handle food preparation and keener supervision from their mentors.

All of its instructors have working experience here and abroad.