Hair and Beauty Course Information

63% Careers Hair & Beauty in

of people working in the hair and beauty sector are self-employed

Have you got a passion for make-up, styling hair or beauty treatments? Every day there are new styles and new trends popping up on social media! When you’re in the Hair and Beauty industry, you get to exercise your artistry and creativity while helping people look and feel their best.

Courses

Barbering - Intermediate

Barbering - Advanced

Beauty Therapy - Intermediate

Entry Requirements:

Our Graduate Salon is where you will be practising with both skills training and learning about the commercial side of the business. You’ll be learning first hand how a salon operates and working with clients to develop your customer service skills, getting you ready to get started on your first day of work.

Campus — Bletchley

Beauty Therapy - Advanced

Hairdressing - Intermediate

Entry is dependent on a review of your qualifications. With our Ofer Guarantee our tutors will work with you to assign your Level whatever your results are.

Typical Careers

Hairstylist/Barber £14k - £30k

Beauty Therapist

Hair Salon Manager

£16k - £25k

£15k - £30k

Key employers we work with:

Y Spa I Bodilight Beauty I Changes Salon

Good Fellows I Centre Parcs I Bannatyne’s

How can I get into the industry?

Hairstylist or barber is an excellent career for on-the-job training and there are many apprenticeships and job vacancies available at all levels. Beauty Therapy apprenticeships are slightly less plentiful but do exist. Some beauty students go on to take a foundation degree in aesthetics.

Highlights Course

Our study programmes are developed in collaboration with local employers to gain insight into what skills and knowledge employers are looking for to support employability following completion of your course.

Assignments are planned with one of our local employers, Naked Hair & Beauty Salon in Northampton, to ensure our students have the knowledge and skills needed to start work.

Our students get to hear from expert speakers, like GHD, who previously came in to teach our students how to use their range of heated tools safely and effectively.

Other expert speakers include Anne Veck, an award-winning hairdresser from Oxford, who came in to give our students training on a variety of hair types, with an emphasis on Type 4 (coily) hair. She discussed the services and products that are suited for this type of hair.

Our students regularly enter hairdressing competitions. For 2023’s Inspire competition, we entered the Art of Women’s Hairdressing category and were declared runners-up.

Case study: Harry, Barbering, Level 2

“I have really enjoyed my course over the past two years and have met some wonderful people along the way that have supported and believed in me and have helped me through difficult times.

Truthfully, I picked barbering because I needed to apply to something after school. I never thought I was going to enjoy doing it. But, since then I have become very passionate about the subject and have really enjoyed learning to cut people’s hair. Enrolling into college to do it has probably been one of my best choices”

Student