The Higher Education Review

India is gradually making its mark across the tourism industry and emerging as a prime hub for numerous international tourists and explorers. With a notion to ensure the holistic development of the students and make them industry-ready, Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology was incepted in 1996. Envisioned to create socially responsible professionals of global standards in the field of Hospitality, Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology has emerged as an exclusive platform providing distinctive and excellent education in the field of hospitality. Imbibing social responsibility, innovation, sustainability, and quality management concepts, the institution intends to nurture holistic development in the students for occupying key positions in the hospitality industry globally.

Eager to address some of the pain points that exist in the hotel management education sector in the country and mend the existing gap between academia as well as Industry, Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology is not only providinga value-added programme but also delivering contents beyond syllabus by organizing Seminars, Guest Lectures, Demonstrations, Industry simulation exercises, and so on. "We believe in collaborating with the industry to

enhance the employability of students. Taking a step towards this, we have designed a finishing course with our students in collaboration with the industry to impart the skills and traits required by the industry. We have initiated a forum named HI Cube (Hospitality Industry-Institute Interface) to create a platform for a dialog the stakeholders and this forum has good representation of educators as well as industry professionals". states Dr. Milind Peshave, Principal, Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology.

Delivering Industry-Specific Courses
Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology deals in Hospitality education which belongs to the category of professional education. The Institute is accredited by NAAC with an A grade and offers two programmes * BHMCT (Bachelor of Hotel Management and Catering Technology) and * B.Sc. HS(Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Studies).

With various infrastructural and modern-day facilities such as free Wi-Fi on campus, advanced ITC enabled classrooms, a Digital Library with remote access, e-contents of Curriculum, State-of-the-Art Infrastructure with modernized laboratories, bio metric attendance, advanced ERP for learning management, and so on, Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology is engaged in promoting hotel management education of highest quality.Adopting innovative practices such as Flip Classrooms, Development of E-Contents,Development of value-added programs, Development of state-of-the-art ICT facility for effective delivery

of the curriculum and implementing new pedagogy to deal with this asynchronous education system, Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology is encouraging the students to actively participate in the present-day learning methodologies. "The entire process of education was embedded in our ERP system thereby making it convenient and an effective tool for remotely monitoring the teaching-learning process", avers Dr. Milind Peshave.

”We believe in collaborating with the industry to enhance the employability of students”

Committed to quality education Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology has launched crash courses in career advancement and value addition that helped the students get an insight into what they had missed in the past. This not only helped the students to gain knowledge but also reinforced their trust in the institute and its faculty thereby increasing their confidence.The relentless efforts of the Institution and tremendous hard work of the faculty and students reaped the expected outcome in terms of enhanced attention and involvement of students leading to better understanding.

Bringing out the creativity of teachers in designing newer methods in the teaching-learning process, the value-added courses offered by Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Hotel Management & Catering are not only bridging the educational gaps but is also enhancing the knowledge and employ ability of students.

Dr. Milind Peshave, Principal
The institution intends to nurture holistic development in the students for occupying key positions in hospitality industry