Creativity is one of humanity’s most fascinating qualities—an inherent ability that resides in all of us from the moment we are born. Far from being a gift reserved for the few, it is a universal trait. However, throughout our lives, this natural way of approa...
In recent months, we have had very tangible and palpable evidence of what many critics and analysts have been pointing out for some time (such as Sir Ken Robinson did back in 2006 with his presentation "Schools kill creativity"), about the need to adapt and up...
The Culinary Institute of Barcelona cooking school believes innovation and creativity are the building blocks for training future chefs.1. The current education system.2. What do the greats all have in common?.3. Creativity is an attitude.4. A personal transf...
The idea of stress in professional kitchens is not a new concept; it has been the path of many culinary geniuses and their teams in search of the satisfaction of their customers and success.There have been several chefs who condemned this issue on different oc...
After more than a decade studying the Millennial generation, the Pew Research Center observed in 2018 that the oldest of this generation were going to turn 38 years old and decided to establish another generational cut to continue investigating the characteris...
The new skills of the 21st century's teacher require a permanent look to the future. We must stop insisting on replicating the past to focus on showing the possibilities of the imminent and more distant future. Students must learn to look ahead so that when th...
There are many cooking schools in the world and many of them are capable of training you to properly handle a kitchen as a chef or restaurant cook.But not all of them are going to teach you in the same way or you are going to acquire the same knowledge, you ar...
In the curricular evaluation of cooking schools, the ability of the student to replicate and accurately known parameters and values is assessed through subjective indicators. At the Culinary Institute of Barcelona we know that professional success does not w...
Por más que los planes de estudios de los centros educativos insisten en adquirir conocimientos, desde la formación primaria hasta los posgrados y másteres posuniversitarios, lo cierto es que, en el mundo real, en el mundo profesional, las personas que más éxi...
In such a volatile, changing, complex and uncertain environment (a situation known under the acronym VUCA), education systems must reorient themselves towards the new reality and prepare students to face the multiple, constant and major paradigm shifts that wi...
Traditional education systems make that young people are not valued in what they are really good at, but in what they are expected to know. Education based on competencies and skills such as imagination, creativity, eloquence and even intelligence (whoever dou...
The obsession of the Culinary Institute of Barcelona is to improve its teaching procedures and models so that young people are able to overcome the scenarios of change, make them their own and know how to adapt to new circumstances with absolute ease.In this p...
At the Culinary Institute of Barcelona we live the pioneering experience of creating a new educational model through our own methodology, with the conviction that it will not be an easy or always successful path, but with the expectation that the methods and p...
