🏛️ Awarding Body: TVEC – Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission

🎓 Award: NVQ Certificate – Professional Cookery (Level 3 or Level 4)

⏱️ Duration: 6 Months to 1 Year

📋 Sector: Hotel and Restaurant

✅ Min. Qualification: G.C.E. O/L passes (Level 4) or No minimum (Level 3)

👤 Age: 16–35 years

💰 Fee: Free or Subsidised at government centres

🌐 Apply: tvec.gov.lk | ☎️ +94 11 2 186 200

The TVEC Professional Cookery Course is a nationally accredited vocational training programme under the NVQ framework, regulated by the Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission. Sri Lanka’s thriving hospitality and tourism industry creates strong demand for professionally trained cooks and chefs in hotels, restaurants, and resorts both locally and across the Maldives and Middle East.

This course provides hands-on training in professional kitchen techniques, local and international cuisine, food hygiene, and kitchen management — giving graduates the skills needed to work in any professional kitchen environment.

What You Will Learn

  • Basic and advanced cooking methods – boiling, roasting, frying, grilling, steaming
  • Sri Lankan cuisine – rice and curry, short eats, and traditional dishes
  • Continental and Asian cuisine preparation
  • Bakery and pastry basics
  • Food hygiene, HACCP principles, and kitchen safety
  • Knife skills, portion control, and food presentation
  • Kitchen organisation and team cooking (brigade system)

Career Opportunities

  • Cook / Commis Chef
  • Hotel Kitchen Staff
  • Restaurant Cook
  • Catering Cook
  • Overseas Chef or Cook (Maldives, Middle East)
  • School / Hospital Canteen Cook
  • Self-Employed – Home Catering Business
  • Pastry and Bakery Chef (with further training)

Entry Requirements

  • NVQ Level 3: No minimum academic qualification required
  • NVQ Level 4: G.C.E. O/L passes required
  • Age 16–35 years
  • Sri Lankan citizen

📞 How to Apply

Regulatory Body: TVEC
Website: www.tvec.gov.lk
Phone: +94 11 2 186 200
Email: info@tvec.gov.lk
Find a Centre: nvq.gov.lk