January 2008  Opposite: Piccadilly Circus at night Principal Rod Hardingham will visit Egypt on January 24-29th of this month
Interns Congratulations to the following students who started their internship this month:	Pardeep Ghimire from Nepal, Young Hak Kim from Korea and Rangitha Goonatillake from Sri Lanka all of whom started placements at the Ritz; Kogila Cavoordin (Mauritius) who joined the Cavendish and Yusuf Soysal (Turkey) who joined the Sofitel.
Employee of the Year!!
This month Dominic Ward Horner from the Seychelles who is completing his work placement at the Ritz in concierge won Employee of the Year which is an amazing acheivement for a student who is still on his work placement. Well done Dominic you are a star!
HND completers During January the following students completed their HND presentations and their HND Diploma Maria Novelli (Brazil)       Marriott Hotel (top picture) Soe Naing Htwe (Myanmar) Cavendish Hotel Lindineia Dos Santos (Brazil) Savoy Hotel Kehinde Ogundare (Nigeria)Marriott Hotel Paron Petdara (Thailand) Berkley Hotel (bottom picture0
Degree After long negotiations LHS is pleased to announce that we will begin teaching the one year top up course BA (Honours) Hospitality Management from Derby University to students who have completed their HND in September 2008	New Lecturers In January two new lecturers started at LHS Ariane Lengyel is French and she has extensive experience of working in Front Office and Sales & Marketing Mathew Alfred is from St. Lucia and he has a wide experience of Rooms division Welcome and we hope you enjoy LHS
Hotel Tours In January we visited the Crowne Plaza hotel (pictured)and the Marriott County Hall hotel