New courses starting 2025
BOOK TEA ESSENTIALS AWARD from Friday 29 November 2024
The UKTA are developing courses to be more flexible and accessible. The qualifications will be made up of individual units taught by our acclaimed international tutors. Each unit builds towards a qualification.
This is where professional tea learning begins and opens the way to a career in tea.
Tea Essentials Award is where future tea experts begin. Open to everyone, it is a self-guided online course providing a solid introduction to the categories of tea, their provenance and production, history and culture and the Art of Tea Brewing.
Tea Sommelier Hospitality Award is aimed at those who work in hospitality or the tea industry. It is a lively interactive, practical approach to being a Tea Sommelier.
World Tea Diploma gives a thorough understanding of a broad selection of regional teas.
Tea Essentials Award
The Tea Essentials Award is where every future tea expert begins.
It is for the two billion people in the world who love tea and either work with tea or are simply tea-curious.
Tea is a fascinating subject encompassing biology and geography, science and health, social history, culture and global economics. But it starts here with looking at the tea plant and how the leaves are crafted into the tea we drink.
You’ll learn how tea travelled from China to the rest of the world, the differences between white, green, oolong and black teas and in our introduction to the Art of Brewing Tea, how attention to detail brings out the best from the leaves.
And when you’re done, you’ll have the opportunity to meet one of our tea tutors in a live webinar. They can answer any questions and talk you through the next steps.
You’ll find a whole range of UKTA units and qualifications will open up for you.
2 Core units required:
Tea Knowledge
Tea Skills
UNIT LENGTH
About 2 hours of learning per unit
Level 2: Tea Sommelier
The Level 2: Tea Sommelier course provides a more comprehensive exploration and supports the next step for a career in a tea business or as a professional tea sommelier in hospitality. There are a total of twelve online tutorials, each is 3-hours long, taught to a small online group by our highly regarded and very experienced tutors.
A Tea Sommelier qualification will help professionals involved in sourcing tea from world origins, those who oversee the brewing and service of tea and anyone writing tea menus and press releases or needing a more in-depth understanding of teas.
Theory & Practical: 12 x Live Online Tutorials (webinars)
Level 3: Tea Diploma
The Level 3: Tea Diploma qualification has been designed for those working with tea in any capacity and for F&B professionals. It will provide a very high level of knowledge and a significant understanding of the many different aspects of tea, including science, culture, history, origins, influences of terroir, processing and organoleptic properties.
The UK Tea Academy tutors help guide each Tea Diploma student on their individual journey, helping them get the most from their studies and achieve a highly regarded and internationally recognised qualification.
Choose from our list of Masterclasses, taught by experts in each subject, to build your own Tea Diploma.
Masterclasses: Take our 8 Core Masterclass Modules and choose 4 further Modules from our extensive list.
