{"id":1770,"date":"2025-09-11T02:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/?page_id=1770"},"modified":"2025-09-11T02:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:14:39","slug":"ms-helen-merle-savena","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/about-college\/profile\/hospitality-tourism-studies\/ms-helen-merle-savena\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Helen Merle Savena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Helen-Merle-Savena.jpg\" alt=\"Helen Merle Savena\" width=\"360\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Position:<\/strong> Assistant Instructor: Food and beverage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qualifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAFE) | Fiji National University (2018)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Postgraduate Diploma in Hospitality and Tourism | The University of the South Pacific (2017-2018)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Bachelor of Commerce in Hotel Management | The University of the South Pacific (2015-2017)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Diploma in Hotel Management (Food &#038; Beverage) | Fiji National University (2009-2011)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Diploma in Hotel Management (Accommodation) | Fiji National University (2009-2011)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Certificate in Hospitality Operations | Fiji Institute of Technology (2007-2009)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Trade Certificate in Cookery | Fiji Institute of Technology (2005-2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Area of Expertise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Culinary Arts<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Accommodation<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Hotel Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Brief Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ms. Helen Merle Savena is a formally trained professional in the Tourism and Hospitality sector, with expertise in key areas including Hotel Management, Food and Beverage, accommodation operations, and Culinary Arts. She serves as a passionate Assistant Instructor in the Food and Beverage Department at the Fiji National University&#8217;s Labasa Campus. With over eight years of teaching experience across certificate, diploma, and degree programs, she brings a total of twenty-one years of combined industry and teaching experience in Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>Her teaching background includes specialization in Culinary Arts and Bakery at the Fiji National University. Her professional experience also includes serving as a Commercial Cookery trainer at the National Training and Productivity Centre (NTPC) in Nasese, and as an Assistant Instructor in Food and Beverage at the Fiji National University&#8217;s Nasese campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Position: Assistant Instructor: Food and beverage Qualifications: \u2022 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAFE) | Fiji National University (2018) \u2022 Postgraduate Diploma in Hospitality and Tourism | The University of the South Pacific (2017-2018) \u2022 Bachelor of Commerce in Hotel Management | The University of the South Pacific (2015-2017) \u2022 Diploma in Hotel Management<a class=\"read_more_link_for_excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/about-college\/profile\/hospitality-tourism-studies\/ms-helen-merle-savena\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":1242,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/about-college\/profile\/hospitality-tourism-studies\/ms-helen-merle-savena\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ms. Helen Merle Savena - College of Business, Hospitality &amp; 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