Beauty and the best at Whanganui UCOL

3 August 2010

Beauty and the best at Whanganui UCOL

Young and older have flocked to the first polytechnic beauty services programme to be offered in Whanganui.

The Certificate in Beauty Services is available at Whanganui UCOL for the first time this year. It was amongst a suite of new programmes introduced in response to community demand. In its inaugural year, it has attracted students ranging in age from 16 to 50+ and the capacity class of 38 has had to be divided into two groups.

Students Amelia Laing and Nina Gilbert are thrilled with their first semester. “It’s brilliant!” they say. Both Amelia (30) and Nina (18) studied previously at UCOL for their pre-apprenticeship hairdressing qualifications. They now share the desire to extend their skills to “more than just hair”.

The programme not only includes practical and theoretical knowledge of beauty services for the face, hands and feet. It also covers aspects of human physiology and anatomy, chemistry and business.

The students work with clients once a week in the purpose designed facility in UCOL’s Bennett building, applying what they have learned in a real-life setting.

Beauty Lecturer Anne Lindsay says “The student retention rate is amazing. It is beyond what we expected” says Anne. “They have taken their study very seriously and are determined to have a career in the beauty industry.”

Anne says she expects the Certificate in Beauty Services to be just as popular next year. “We are up there with the best equipped beauty schools in the country.”

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