Unique Chinese experience for Dutch hospitality students TEXT: MAYA WITTERS | PHOTOS: KONING WILLEM I COLLEGE
The Koning Willem I College in ‘s-Hertogenbosch firmly aims to provide its students with the best possible preparation for the job market. As part of this effort, its hospitality department recently embarked on a collaboration that allows students to do a work placement at Intercontinental Hotel Group in Jiangsu. As a UNESCO school, stimulating equal opportunities, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue lies at the heart of everything Koning Willem I College, a School for Senior Secondary Vocational 42 | Issue 69 | September 2019
Education, Adult General Secondary Education and Adult Education in the Noord-Brabant province, undertakes. “We offer each one of our 15,000 students the opportunity to have an international experience during their training,” explains head of the school’s international office Renée Frommé. “Whether that’s a placement in an international company within the Netherlands, or an internship abroad.”
tal Hotel Group in the Jiangsu province. “We were contacted by Rob Spiekerman, director of operations for IHG hotels in Jiangsu and GM of the InterContinental
Chance of a lifetime Given the school’s international outlook, its international office jumped at the opportunity to collaborate with the Intercontinen-
Paul Swinkels, Marc Raaijmakers, Yolande Ulenaers and Renée Frommé.