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The utilisation of cutting edge hair and beauty electrical equipment including galvanic, faradic, heat lamps and steamers ensures that students graduate from The Melbourne College of Hair and Beauty with vital operational knowledge and practical experience in all aspects of the hairdressing and/or beauty industries.
Prestigious learning spaces, theory, practice and salon simulated classrooms and The College’s extensive audio-video library provide an environment that exceeds the highest standards of training. In addition the College's central locality ensures students easy accessibility by train, tram and bus.
To be the best you have to be with the best
The Melbourne College of Hair and Beauty offers students the ultimate training environment, training its students in the use of leading product brands.
The Melbourne College of Hair and Beauty understands the need for its students to train utilizing the finest products in order to produce the finest results. The Melbourne College of Hair and Beauty embraces advances in technology with the latest hairdressing and beauty equipment and machinery at its students’ disposal. The futuristic high tech "Rollerball" accelerator equipment used for colouring, perming and conditioning that work s on two wavelengths of Far Infrared Rays ensures students are trained using innovative & ultramodern equipment in the hairdressing salon.
The recent introduction of new state of the art "Cutera Titan" the leading provider
of laser and other light-based aesthetic systems for practitioners worldwide
has seen the first tailored infrared light source for sustained deep dermal heating
being used at the Melbourne College in conjunction with medical practitioners
ensuring students have an opportunity to train in new and expanding fields
of beauty.
The College’s Hair and Beauty salon’s surpasses Melbourne’s best and enables
students to experience working and providing services to clients with the finest.
Hairdressing Accreditation
Teaching Methods
All the accredited courses in this booklet are delivered through the use of lectures, demonstrations, visual aids, observations, practice and critiques. The course is taught in two phases basic training and salon sessions. The basic training session includes classroom presentation, lectures, and introductions for the theory. The salon session is conducted at the college builtin hair salon including demonstration, hands-on experiences to contextually generic subjects. Some training at the college virtual salon is also required for real life supervisory experience.
Teaching Resources
- Hair Salon: Practical classes are conducted in our real Hair Salon Studio
- Students will be provided with hair products and equipments to work on hair
Scheduled Hours Per Week
International:25hrs/Wk to complete all learning and assessment activities undertaken by a student, including self-study and project work. Face to Face Delivery is 21 hrs/wk
Local:40hrs/Wk to complete all learning and assessment activities undertaken by a student, including self-study and project work. Face to Face Delivery is 35 hrs/wk
(unless studying part-time)
Course Structure
This courses cover practical skills including cutting, shampooing, rinsing, styling, straightening, curling and colouring. The course also emphasises client service, product knowledge and communication skills. It develops students’ manual skills, giving the technical knowledge and expertise for work in hairdressing and hair design. Students gain an understanding of hairdressers’ rights, obligations and the hairdressing industry in general, as well as product and equipment knowledge and business management skills. Workplace training in a number of modules is a feature of this course. It is necessary for students to participate in a salon work placement as part of the course.
English Language Requirements
To be eligible, you must have achieved:
- An overall IELTS (International English Language Testing Service) (Academic Module) score of 5.5 with all subtest scores at 5.0+ or
- An internet-based TOEFL score of 70+ with a minimum of 18 in all sections or
- a computer-based TOEFL score of 197 with an Essay Rating (ER) score of 4 or
- a paper-based TOEFL score of 525 with a TWE (Test of Written English) score of 4 or
- an upper intermediate level at an English Language Institute.
