Orpacific School of Hospitality and Tourism

School of Hospitality and Tourism

Innovates relevant, practice-orient skill training curriculum
Provides excellent teaching, learning and networking
Inspires students to be innovative leaders of tomorrow
Promotes an ethical and entrepreneurial spirit

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Bachelor of Hotel Management
Advanced Diploma in Hotel Management
Diploma in Hotel Management

The issues with Today's traditional universities.

Traditional universities design curriculum which lists program structure together with modules that comes with learning outcomes, and a list of relevant knowledge, a very good start.

However traditional universities focus almost entirely on teaching of knowledge and assessment through closed pen and paper examinations.
Students who achieved a certain pre-determined pass point (say 50%) is then certified to pass the module.
Does this results indicate all the learning outcomes are achieved?
We need lots of faith to believe that this is true for each and every student certified PASS by these universities.

Traditional univerities award qualification with only a transcript listing modules and grade achieved.
The only verification is so called ACCREDITATION as the hallmarks of quality.
ACCREDITATION means once every few years, an oversight body is hosted to interview a group of selected (not random) students, facilites, alumni, etc., to verify the program.
What happen in between?

Orpacific - The Competency Training University

Curriculum lists program structure and associated modules with clear learning outcome, and associated knowledge to achieve the learning outcomes.
Teach the knowledge and design projects or problems to guide students in the application of knowledge to practice.
Assessment is a direct observation of the achievement of ALL learning outcomes in the projects and problem solution.
Continuous feedback to execution of project to ensure real 100% learning.
Project and problem solution process, with comments by examiners, are recorded and compile into a portfolio.
Portfolio, burnt onto a DVD, accompanies every certification by Orpacific - 100% evidence-back certification.

Why are traditional universities not adopting Orpacific's method?

Not because there is a problem with competency-based training, but because project-, problem- based training is very expensive to implement.
Cheap and easy to mark exam scripts. Individual supervision to ensure every project works is EXPENSIVE.

The innovative mission oriented people -

Enable students from around the world an opportunity for a high quality education at an affordable cost.
High quality and low cost is NOT contradictory for the innovative organisation - the hallmark of Orpacific.
We pay our top quality instructors their due rate; but we exploit modern technology and re-design their jobs to bring down the time and effort needed to deliver the same high quality content. We increase productivity and pass the savings to you.
Mass lecture is a cheap, good way to impart underpinning knowledge. But we make the cheap way even cheaper with our virtual classroom delivery. At the same time, we make the good way even better, with a combined traditional lecture with modern interactive learning.
To be ready for the real job, you need to have experienced the process. Projects and problem-based learning is an integral part of all Orpacific programs. By the time you get to your real job, you would not have just heard of the techniques in lectures, but had actually applied them. We make you immediately employable.
Projects are expensive to mount - and that is why many schools do not offer them, or if do, only in a minor way. At Orpacific, we do not cut cost by cutting the essential. We overcome cost by developing the innovative multimedia e-portfolio recording tool. This allows supervision, assessment, collaboration to be done cheaply online, giving you top quality training at an affordable price.
Finally with our innovation, we reap another benefit. Your portfolio will be organised by us into a Personal Graduation Digital Portfolio DVD, and presented to you together with your degree scroll. In so doing, we put evidence of your professional competence in your hand, making your degree the most recognizable degree in the whole world.We cannot guarantee that the Orpacific brand is a household name in any corner of the world, but your EVIDENCE of competence is a mark of quality that no one can deny you.
We maintain your CV, achievement and contact online, with your choice of private access so that only aluminus can find you, or public access so that you can be located from anywhere in the world.

Each degree scroll is accompanied by the Personal Digital Portfolio DVD, which contains multimedia evidence of the candidate's competency.

We either adopt established Competency Standards (CS )of the relevant profession, or if not available, our team of experts develops the CS based on the profession's best practice.

Our curriculum is a collection of these CS, ensuring that what you learn is directly relevant to the profession that you are going to earn your qualification.

In addition, we add in critical thinking/analysis, creativity, and entrepreneur skillset to our curriculum. This ensures you are ready for tomorrow's challenge.

Finally, we benchmark our inclusive underpinning knowledge training against major universities in the world, to ensure that our curriculum is on par with these universties.

Lessons deliver in online virtual classrooms. In the virtual classrom you will hear and see the instructor. You will also see the full resolution dynamics screen of the instructor's computer screen. There is hardly any difference attending a lecture in our virtual classroom compared to a physical classroom. However the advantage is that it allows a fully customised environment; you can skip easy parts,or re-listen difficult parts. You are in control of your time, and your pace of learning.

With the virtual classroom, the instructor can do more than in a physical classroom. He can direct you to some interesting websites for you to explore. He can set summative exercises for you to complete to reinforce the concept taught. We combine the best of traditional classroom teaching with modern digital interactive learning in one contiguous lesson.

You can also ask questions; speak, draw or type; while attending a virtual lesson. These questions will be uploaded to the course multimedia forum for discussion. The instructor may even schedule a synchronous online tutorial.

Every modules in each program is peppered with projects; both big and small. We will lead you to execute these projects and/or solve related real-life problems to gain in-depth capabilities in each subject.

The problems you solve in the modules and the project you execute are design to help you build your multimedia PORTFOLIO. You will be taught to use the university's powerful multimedia recording tools to record demonstrations and presentations of the your projects. All these will be organised into a Personal Graduating Digital Portfolio DVD, to be presented to you together with your degree scroll. We put evidence of your competence in the subject matter in your own hand.

Orpacific is a global university. Your classmates may not be located in your locality. You are expose students from every continent in the world. Asked during lesson, or off-lesson. Have discussions with teachers, students around the world. Execute projects with international partners. You will soon be building an international network, that is going to be invaluable in the future.

Submit your Personal Graduating Digital Portfolio DVD to your prospective employer, or to the admission department of your next university. Be one-up on your competitor.