CTIA - Chefs Training & Innovation Academy

29/09/2026

👨‍🍳 DON’T JUST DREAM ABOUT CHEF LIFE — TEST-DRIVE IT! 🔥

Join us for CTIA’s final Shadow Day of 2026 and step into the kitchen alongside our expert Chef Lecturers.

You’ll learn to create an incredible dish completely from scratch — and take your delicious creation home! Parents are welcome to stay, watch and experience the campus too.

📅 Saturday, 3 October 2026
⏰ 09:00–12:00
🎟️ R350 per person
📍 Centurion | Stellenbosch | Durban | Mbombela

Come ready to cook, learn and be wowed by the CTIA campus of your choice! 🤩

⚠️ Spaces are limited at each campus— register now to secure your place!

Register to join with this link: https://ctia.co.za/ctia-shadow-day/

29/09/2026

Matrics, before the final school and exam chaos begins… come and do something fun! 👨‍🍳🔥

CTIA Shadow Day is the perfect chance to step away from the books, de-stress and spend the morning creating an amazing dish from scratch alongside our Chef Lecturers.

You’ll get a taste of campus life, learn new skills and take your delicious creation home. Parents are welcome to stay and watch too!

📅 Saturday, 3 October 2026
⏰ 09:00–12:00
🎟️ R350 per person
📍 Centurion | Stellenbosch | Durban | Mbombela

Take a breather before the final hard push — and find out whether chef life could be your next chapter. 🤩

This is our last Shadow Day of the year, and spaces are limited at each campus.

Register now before you miss it! 🔗 https://ctia.co.za/ctia-shadow-day/

28/09/2026

Join CTIA’s Online Info Session on 30 September 2026 at 16:00 and discover how you can turn your passion for food, pastry or hospitality into an accredited qualification.

We’ll take you through CTIA’s programmes, flexible study options and the career opportunities they can unlock—whether you choose to study Full-Time, Part-Time or Online.

You’ll also join Chef Mornez and Chef Ciara LIVE from the CTIA Demo Kitchen for an exciting cooking demonstration, giving you a taste of the skill, creativity and practical learning behind the CTIA experience.

Register now, bring your questions and discover where your future with CTIA could take you.

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25/09/2026

What does your first job interview look like? 🇺🇸

For 43 of our students, it came with a job in America.

In September, the executive team of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group and our placement partner IntegriCore Global visited our Stellenbosch, Durban, Centurion and Mbombela campuses to interview our students. For many, it was their very first job interview.

64 students were interviewed and 43 were hired. That's a 67% hiring rate.

Next stop: New Orleans, where they'll join the teams at Brennan's, Red Fish Grill and Ralph's on the Park.

Congratulations to every one of you, and thank you to IntegriCore Global and the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group for your continued partnership. 👏

Your first interview could be next. Registration is open to study in February 2027. Link in bio.

22/09/2026

The reward is the plate.

Once you’ve mastered the foundation of cooking, food preparation and cooking methods, techniques, mise en place, baking methods, health and safety, quality assurance, resource management, ingredients, environmental awareness, mother sauces, temperature control, food preparation, costing, principles of kitchen equipment and knife skill techniques, culinary numeracy and units of measurement, finishing dishes.

Then you understand what goes into creating a beautiful, balanced, delicious plate that hits again and again and again.

It’s more than just cooking from the heart. It’s a lot of training, practice, understanding, research, passion , creativity and long hours of perfecting the craft.

17/09/2026

🚨 WAIT… CTIA IS LAUNCHING BRAND NEW COURSES?! 👀🤩

YES — and you’ll be among the first to hear about them THIS SATURDAY at CTIA Open Day! 👨‍🍳🔥

📅 Saturday, 19 September 2026
⏰ 08:30 arrival | 09:00 start
📍 Centurion | Stellenbosch | Durban | Mbombela/Nelspruit

If a career in food, culinary, pastry or hospitality is calling your name, this is your chance to come and experience CTIA for yourself.

Meet our chefs. Explore the campus. Discover where your qualification could take you. 🌍✨

🎓 Registrations are OPEN for February 2027
Choose the study mode that works for you:
Full-Time | Part-Time | Online

AND… 👀

🤩 We’re launching some BRAND NEW COURSES this Saturday!

We’re keeping the details under wraps for now… you’ll have to join us to find out. 😉

DON’T MISS THIS ONE. Book your spot for Open Day now!

BOOK HERE: https://ctia.co.za/ctia-events/

17/09/2026

Food has become a global industry spanning hospitality, retail, cruise lines, private dining, product development, food media, entrepreneurship and luxury experiences.

At the Chefs Training & Innovation Academy (CTIA), this changing landscape is exactly what students are being prepared for.

Read more:

Discover how a culinary qualification from CTIA opens doors to global travel, private dining, and future-proof careers. Study online or on campus!

01/09/2026

Never underestimate the power of skilled hands. 🤲

We’re living in a time of incredible technological change. AI can write, calculate, analyse, generate and automate
- and naturally, that has many people wondering what the future of work will look like.

But there is something beautifully reassuring about a skill you carry in your own two hands.

A chef’s hands learn through thousands of repetitions. They develop precision, instinct, creativity and care. They learn how something should feel, when something is ready, and how to transform simple ingredients into an experience another person will remember.

Technology will continue to change the way we work - and we should learn to work with it.

But there will always be value in human craft.

In making. Creating. Building. Cooking. Baking. Designing. Fixing. Growing.

There is pride in looking at something you have created and knowing:

My hands know how to do this.

That is a gift worth celebrating and a skill worth developing. 🤍