Diploma in Hairdressing

Course details

As a follow-up to the Certificate in Hairstyling Course, the Diploma course will strengthen your skills with advanced techniques in cutting, perming, colouring and styling.

You will have plenty of opportunities to practice with live models and become accomplished at every advanced skill. Instructors are there to professionally guide your progress but will also allow ample opportunity for you to experiment with an array of styles and develop your signature flair.

While on the course, you will take part in practical session working on blocks (mannequin heads) for certain tasks and later on will embarked on supervised practical training with live models in the Contemporary Practical Area, applying what you have learnt in a fully equipped salon-school environment. Theory lessons that come alongside are conducted in the Lecture room.

Learning Outcome

• Carry out a risk assessment
• Monitor health and safety in the salon
• Provide consultation support to colleagues
• Prepare for cutting hair
• Provide a cutting service
• Prepare for colouring service
• Provide a colouring service
• Prepare for styling service
• Provide a styling service
• Promote products and services to the client
• Research Human Resource Management
• Carry out a practical presentation
• Prepare for bridal hairstyling services
• Create a variety of bridal effects
• Prepare for hair extensions services
• Attach hair extensions
• Remove hair extensions
• Prepare to creatively perm the hair
• Creatively perm hair
• Plan an image
• Create an image

Course Intake

Course commences first Monday of every month.

Course Entry Requirement

• Completed Certificate in Hairdressing / ITEC Level 2 Diploma or 
• Minimum 1 year salon experience as a Junior Hair Stylist

Graduation Requirement

Students are required to meet the following criteria in order to graduate and obtain their relevant diploma:

• Must complete all 11 modules with at least 80% (90% for International students) in attendance
• Able to perform 1 internal practical assessment to create an image with either cut and colour / cut and perm / upstyle
• Must achieve at least 80% in terms of live model requirement

Assessment

This qualification will be internally assessed by Kimage Hairdressing School.

Before completion of the course, the following tasks have to be internally assessed.

• Style and Dress Hair using a Variety of Techniques
• Cut Woman's Hair to Create a Variety of Looks
• Colour Hair to Create a Variety of Looks

You have to register to sit for 1 internal practical assessment. There are 2 assessment dates per month. You are required to perform all the above tasks on a live model. Students are responsible for their assessment live model. Assessment is on a pass / fail grading, assessing by your abiility to perform the required tasks.

Examination

At the end of the course, you can register for either the ITEC and/or City & Guilds certification.

International students, upon completion of their course and expiration of their student pass, will have to return to their home country and make arrangement to come to Singapore for their scheduled examination.

Progression

At the end of the course, you will be able to use the knowledge and skill learned to enter the industry and take your place in the industry as a Qualified Stylist.

Course Awards

Upon meeting all Graduation Requirements, you will graduate with a Diploma in Hairdressing awarded by Kimage Hairdressing School.

If you choose to register and pass the ITEC Examination, you will be awarded the ITEC Level 3 Diploma in Hairdressing. If you choose to register for and pass the City & Guilds Examinations, you will be awarded the Level 2 IVQ Diploma in Hairdressing (English) 1122 or the Diploma in Hairdressing (Chinese) 8122 by City & Guilds depending on the medium of paper which you sit for.