South East WalesBenchmarking

Hair & Beauty Therapy Good Practice & Critical Success Factors

Sara Tutton, Coleg Morgannwg

SuccessesCourse Successful Completion No of StudentsNVQ L1 Beauty Therapy 83% 12NVQ L2 Beauty Therapy 82% 27NVQ L3 Beauty Therapy 94% 32Holistic Therapy 87% 15Hairdressing L2 94% 17Certificate Reflexology L3 91% 11Diploma Holistic Therapy 88% 9NVQ L2 Beauty Therapy 94% 18NVQ L3 Hairdressing 88% 9NVQ L2 Hairdressing 83% 23NVQ L2 Hairdressing 93% 45NVQ Beauty Therapy 88% 17Diploma in Beauty Spec. Tech. 88% 16Diploma in Holistic Therapies L3 95% 20BTEC Nat Dip Beauty Therapy L3 90% 11Diploma in Reflexology 94% 17VTCT Reflexology L3 88% 16

Critical success factors

• tightly structured delivery and assessment• blended learning that meets learning styles• regular review and recognition of progress• strong links between practical and theory work

supported by skills workshops• mix of full and part-time courses delivered to meet

vocational needs• support and pastoral care from a cohesive and

appropriate staff team• staff are proactive, innovative and are good role

models for the students

Critical success factors cont’d

• staff have established CPD into their work effectively• high quality work experience linked to assessment• bravo value added process beginning to be used and

on-line tutorials• early signs of male involvement in barbering and

holistic therapies• the benefits of achieving early and sustained contact

with parents• employability of students and acquisition of

enterprise, customer services and soft transferable skills

Issues• maintaining a professional staff team who are

experienced practitioners without comparable pay scales

• working to recruit students with integrity despite perceptions

• needing to maintain high professional standards whether delivered in college or schools

• resource base needs to reflect delivery needs• allocating time and resources for CPD • opportunities for developing and sharing ILT resources

across the colleges in SE Wales• maintaining a forum to share good practice and

address shared issues

Raising standards

• consistently strong programme area but the need to sustain this through continued investment and development

• address the minority of poor teaching and learning • meet the continuing need to be flexible and

responsive to the workplace needs• continue to develop blended learning and ILT

materials• engage more effectively with employers, Sector Skills

Councils and the awarding bodies • maintain the status of the programme area within FE

and training