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Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Professional Cookery CG

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Overview

Taught in our professional kitchen, this course will help you to build on the skills you will have from working in the industry already or from the Level 2 Diploma in Professional Cookery, to become a competent and efficient chef. Using the skills, you have already developed, this course will help to advance your knowledge of classical and modern cooking techniques.

Throughout the course you will also learn about food preparation, cooking and finishing of larder and bakery items and dishes.

How you’ll learn

  • Supervisory food safety
  • Supervisory skills in hospitality
  • Exploring gastronomy
  • Advanced skills in vegetables and vegetarian dishes
  • Advanced skills and techniques in producing meat dishes
  • Advanced skills and techniques in producing poultry and game dishes
  • Advanced skills and techniques in producing Fish and shellfish dishes.
  • Produce dough and batter products.
  • Produce petit fours.
  • Produce paste products.
  • Produce hot, cold and frozen desserts.
  • Produce biscuits, cakes and sponge products.
Entry and progression

What you need and where it leads

  1. Entry requirements
  2. This course Level 3
  3. Further study

Entry requirements

Ideally at least 4 GCSEs at grade 9-4 or grade A*-D, but this is subject to discussion at your interview.

A prerequisite of either a 2 Diploma in Professional Cookery or Level 2 Diploma in Culinary Skills.

If you have had experience working in the catering industry and can demonstrate a reasonable amount of knowledge and culinary skills, then you will be considered for this course, this too will be discussed at the interview stage.

Not sure you meet these? Talk to us and we will help you find the right starting point.

Further study

Careers it can lead to

  • Chefs £23,000 a year
  • Cooks £14.49 an hour
  • Kitchen and Catering Assistants £12.26 an hour
  • Butchers £28,500 a year
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  • Waiters and Waitresses £12.21 an hour
  • Bar Staff £12.21 an hour

With further study or experience

  • Catering and Bar Managers £26,000 a year
  • Bar and Catering Supervisors £13.15 an hour
  • Restaurant and Catering Establishment Managers and Proprietors £30,400 a year
  • Cleaning and Housekeeping Managers and Supervisors £26,100 a year

Typical pay is the UK median for each job (Lightcast, October 2026).

Your UCAS points

City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Professional Cookery

Grade UCAS points
P Pass 64

UCAS points are an estimate. Each university course sets its own entry requirements, and points can change from year to year. Please enquire for full details about a specific course. Points from the UCAS Tariff tables for 2027 entry. About UCAS Tariff points

George

George

Level 2 Professional Cookery

Student Voice

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I just enjoy learning and would say I enjoyed going back to basics the most. Working in kitchens is very fast-paced and everything feels rushed. Here, you get to slow it down and really perfect the basics of cooking, like learning the processes and science behind making a good stock, for example. Being in a room with other learners was great because you get to work and learn together. I settled into college life really easily and felt very welcomed.

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For parents and carers

Supporting your child’s journey

A Friendly, Welcoming Place

Students are often surprised by how friendly and welcoming college is. It's a supportive community where they'll build genuine friendships and feel part of something.

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Learning Support

If your child has additional learning needs, our support team works with them from day one. Adjustments are put in place early so they can get the most out of their course.

About learning support

GCSE Support Built In

If your child needs to resit GCSE English or Maths, it's built into the timetable, not bolted on as an extra. They'll get structured support alongside their main course.

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Qualifications That Count

These are nationally recognised qualifications with real academic weight. Your child will develop practical skills and knowledge that employers and universities genuinely value.

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What happens after you apply

1

You apply

Apply online and you’ll get a confirmation email.

2

You meet your tutor

We’ll invite you to an interview to talk through the course and your plans, and make sure it’s right for you.

3

You get an offer

We’ll email you a conditional or unconditional offer.

4

You get ready to start

Come to a taster session in the summer, then enrol in August, bringing your results.

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