News Summary

• For much of the late twentieth century, hospitality education was a model of how academia could work hand in hand with industry.
• The UK led the world in creating postgraduate programmes that balanced academic rigour with real-world relevance.
• These programmes nurtured qualities such as leadership, resilience, creativity, and good people management, essential to an industry built on human connection.
• Today, that legacy is in decline.
• The cause is not lack of interest or relevance but two forces from within academia itself: managerialism and academic subject snobbery.