Monthly Archives: October 2015

Highfield Chairman at Dubai hospitality conference

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Highfield Chairman Richard Sprenger was one of the main speakers at this year’s Vision Conference , held as part of The Hotel Show 2015 at Dubai World Trade Centre.

The conference, which took place from 17 to 19 September 2015 – and is now in its third year – offers the latest insights, trends and market intelligence across the hospitality sector.  Richard spoke to a packed audience of experts and industry leaders on the importance of improving food safety in hotels, and how it can impact on compliance and reputation.

Richard said, ‘The Vision Conference was a great opportunity to talk to the hospitality sector about the importance of food safety, and how it can impact on everything else you do.  Getting food safety wrong can completely ruin a customer’s experience of your business and risk you falling foul of the authorities.  What’s more, damage to reputation through an entirely preventable incident can be incredibly hard to put right’.

For more on the conference, go to www.thehotelshow.com/Content/Vision-Conference

Highfield chairman presents top award for environmental health

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kerri_milne._coimbra_2015._2 Highfield Chairman Richard Sprenger was the leading sponsor at one of Europe’s top environmental health congresses last month, where he was on hand to present a student with a prestigious award for her study on how to beat Ebola.

The 1st World Academic Congress on Environmental Health , was held in Coimbra, Portugal, from 22 to 26 September 2015, and brought together some of Europe’s leading academic experts on environmental health.

One of the highlights of the Congress was the presentation of the Roy Emerson Award to Kerri Milne at the International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH) conference on 23 September 2015. The award, which is sponsored by Highfield and Regulatory Information and Management Systems (RIAMS) is given to undergraduate environmental health students for an essay on a current topic set by the IFEH, and is named in honour of Roy Emerson, one of the IFEH founders who died in 2010.

Kerri, a third year BSc (Hons) Environmental Health student at the University of the West of Scotland , took this year’s award for her essay, ‘World Health – It’s In Our Hands: Can We Beat Ebola?’.  Henry Healy, who is studying the same course as Kerri, was runner-up.

Richard Sprenger said, ‘It was an honour to present Kerri with the Roy Emerson Award and congratulate her on her excellent essay on the environmental health issues posed by diseases such as Ebola.  The future of environmental health is in good hands with students like Kerri and Henry coming through the ranks.

It was also a particular honour to support the IFEH and for Highfield to sponsor the award.  Roy was a good friend and we attended most of the IFEH conferences together, starting with the inaugural conference in Australia in 1988 until his untimely death in December 2010’.

Kerri’s essay will be published in the autumn edition of Environmental Health Scotland, due to be printed early October 2015.

Photo caption: Kerri Milne receiving her award. From left to right, Professor Susana Paixao, Henning Hansen, Kerri Milne and Richard Sprenger.

10 new qualifications approved for funding

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HABC Logo The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has announced that is has approved a further 10 Highfield qualifications, raising the total number of qualifications we offer to 70.

The funded qualifications are:

A list of all 70 funded qualifications that can be delivered by Highfield Approved Centres is available here.

If you are a Highfield Approved Centre and would like to add any of these qualifications to your current provision, then please contact your account manager directly. If you are not currently a Highfield Approved Centre and would like to become one to start delivering our funded qualifications, then please visit here and you’ll be able to start your application process to join us.