SEOUL KOREA -SPC Group has teamed up with Hyejeon College and China’s Wangsan Baking School to nurture Chinese students into highly skilled bakers and confectioners through an industry- academia cooperation program.
SPC Group, one of S. Korea's largest food manufacturers, said that it signed an MOU with Hyejeon College (located in HongSeong-Eup, ChungChongNam-Do, S. Korea) and China’s Wangsan Baking School to nurture global talent in the field of baking and confectionery.
Under the MoU, those who will join a four-year industry-academia talent nurturing program will be selected from China’s Wangsan Baking School students.
The selected students will learn basic skills at Wangsan Baking School during the first year of the program before they start their two-year diploma course in baking and confectionery at Hyejeon College. They will also learn Korean during the two-year diploma course.
What’s more during the fourth year of the program, they will get both theoretical education and practical skill training at SPC Group’s SPC Culinary Academy and Paris Baguette stores. All expenses, including accommodation and educations fees, during the final year will be borne by SPC Group.
Then, those who have completed the four-year program will be evaluated and some of them will be given opportunities to work as professionals at Paris Baguette stores in China. The four-year program is scheduled to kick off in January next year.
“The MoU will allow Chinese students to have systemic, practical on-the-job training, as well as future career opportunities. We will double our efforts to foster global talent in the field of baking and confectionery in and out of the nation,” said an official from SPC Group.
Meanwhile, SPC Group has been at the forefront of producing professional bakers and confectioners in the nation. In 1992, it became the first to open a baking school in the domestic bakery industry: Nearly 3,300 bakers have been produced since Korean-French Bakery and Confectionery Technology School (now SPC Culinary Academy) was set up in 1992. In 2011, SPC Group created government-approved SPC Food Science College within the group, which has so far graduated 45 students with bachelor’s degrees in baking and confectionery. On top of that, since 2011, SPC Group has been running a free education and career building program in partnership with vocational high schools such as Shin Jung Girls’ Commercial High School.
