As chair of the Professional Association for Catering Education (PACE), Molly sees her role as encouraging catering education institutions to work together to manage the challenges of continuing change.
Her members are struggling with course closures as colleges look to cut costs by axing expensive-to-run training kitchens and thereby also saving money budgeted for ingredients for catering students.
Despite this and the added challenge of poor perceptions of the catering industry influencing parents of potential students, she regularly publicises the fact that there remains strong interest among young people to join courses even as the catering and hospitality industry is crying out for more staff.
She believes that a properly-supported further education sector, combined with apprenticeships, can provide some of the answer.
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