The cooking-immigration nexus (journal article)
by Bob Birrell, Ernest Healy and Bob Kinnaird
from People and Place, v.17, no.1, 2009, pp. 63-75
"There has been a meteoric rise in enrolments of overseas students in cooking courses in Australia from around 1019 in 2004 to 8242 in 2008. All are trained in full-time courses conducted mainly by private providers, rather than by the apprenticeship system which is the norm for Australian-trained cooks. ... This article examines the rules governing the training and subsequent vasaing of these cooks. It concludes that there are serious gaps in the rules governing their training and the assessment of their competency. In large part because of these definciencies, only a minority obtain employment in Australia as trade-level cooks."