Students will swap schoolbooks for saucepans and whiteboards for flat screen TVs when they have lessons in Worcester College of Technology's new hi-tech kitchen classroom.

The Deansway college's Department of Hospitality was given extra cash after winning a Centre of Vocational Excellence award in Food Preparation.

As a result, it opened the state-of-the-art classroom, which will allow lecturers to record lessons on to DVD and playback demonstrations.

Recorded lessons will then be placed on the college's intranet, ensuring students can revise material and study at their own pace.

The college is the largest provider of chef training in Worcestershire and the kitchen can also be used by businesses to hold their own courses.

For further details,

call Stuart McRobbie on 01905 725588 or e-mail him at smcrobbie@

wortech.ac.uk