Wine Campus
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Wine Campus is an independent wine school based in Malta but open to students from around the world.
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It was originally a small college providing face to face courses in Europe. Given the popularity of the Web at that time, Wine Campus quickly developed into a virtual wine campus
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Today, the wine school can deliver wine tuition to anyone anywhere in the world with a PC, access to the Internet, and the keenness to learn.
Wine Campus is one of the few colleges providing wine education via up-to-date and carefully researched e-learning
modules. The school facilitates novice oenophiles and aspiring wine professionals from different countries, often living in remote areas or simply with busy time tables, to follow self-paced interactive wine courses. They are delivered by first-rate wine experts and tutors to whom students would otherwise have no access.
Wine Campus is unique in that it is geared up to also accredit wine stewards and sommeliers anywhere in the world through a network of qualified examiners.
Wine Campus also offers bursaries through the Fortis Plan.
Wine Campus aspires to become a not-for-profit college in 2010.
History
Wine Campus was founded in the 1990s by wine writer and educator Georges MeekersGeorges Meekers
Georges J. M. Meekers is a wine writer and educator.His writing career began in the 1990s, when he wrote a wine column for Malta Today. He continues to contribute to The Times of Malta and several international wine trade magazines, such as Harpers Magazine, with vintage reports on Malta and other...
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It was originally a small college providing face to face courses in Europe. Given the popularity of the Web at that time, Wine Campus quickly developed into a virtual wine campus
Campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...
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Today, the wine school can deliver wine tuition to anyone anywhere in the world with a PC, access to the Internet, and the keenness to learn.
Wine Campus is one of the few colleges providing wine education via up-to-date and carefully researched e-learning
E-learning
E-learning comprises all forms of electronically supported learning and teaching. The information and communication systems, whether networked learning or not, serve as specific media to implement the learning process...
modules. The school facilitates novice oenophiles and aspiring wine professionals from different countries, often living in remote areas or simply with busy time tables, to follow self-paced interactive wine courses. They are delivered by first-rate wine experts and tutors to whom students would otherwise have no access.
Wine Campus is unique in that it is geared up to also accredit wine stewards and sommeliers anywhere in the world through a network of qualified examiners.
Educational Programmes
The wine education programmes developed by the school are delivered via the online platform. They are run at various levels. The programmes begin with Apprenticeship Courses (Brevets), followed by Advanced Graduate Courses (Higher Brevets), Advanced Master Classes (Honours Brevets) and Vocational Programmes.Wine Campus also offers bursaries through the Fortis Plan.
Organisational Structure
The school changed its original name Mediterranean Wine Campus to Wine Campus as to attract students from all over the globe.Wine Campus aspires to become a not-for-profit college in 2010.