Why Do Students Decide To Study Culinary Arts? : A Case Study of Culinary Arts Students at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

In today's competitive global environment career educations are found to be one of the best approaches of providing individual with skills and knowledge to a specific labor market. Culinary Arts education program is offering to train individuals to work in the vast sector of hospitality industry which are still requires significant amount of young trained professional. There has been a positive development in culinary education and demand for culinary practitioners in New Zealand, especially since the growth of the tourism industry, large sporting events and the popularity of New Zealand as a location for film production. This monograph highlights the empirical investigation based case study on the factors that influence school leavers to enrol unto the culinary arts programmes for their tertiary education at the School of Hospitality at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Auckland New Zealand.