Running a hairdressing salon is a big job. Apprentices have to learn at College and in the salon about customer services, using technology, keeping records, making appointments and responding to customers. They are taught a lot about good communication in the salon and in the College
Is there a good collaboration between the school and salon where students are practicing? Perceive you as we do here that there are many instructors who find it hard to be responsible for a student?
ReplyDeleteSometimes there is a good collaboration between the salon and the school. The school sends out a supervisor to check on how the student is going in the salon and the school supervisor sometimes gives advice to the salon about what the student should be doing.This does not always work well and sometimes the student learns different things from the different people and this causes problems. Do you find this?
ReplyDeleteI was also interested in this matter. In Sweden the teacher is the one responsble for grading the teacher for the whole vocatinal education althoug some teachers are not very often out to visit. We now have a big drop out probelm with apprentices form the expaniding apprenice program.
ReplyDeleteI think there are differens reasons form this. Some students don´t have teh motivation - maybe they should not have been offered a pprentice program. And som places don´t have the time to instruct and to act as mentors. They might be used as cheep labour.
It is so good that you have a school that is like a real salon. The students learn how to act and treat the clients. Is it just customers the students practice on? or do they alsow take models?
ReplyDeleteAre they ready hairdressers after school? can they start to work as an professional?
ReplyDeleteWhen the students are finished, do they start their own company or do they work at somebody?
ReplyDeleteStudents at our school (www.sccvc.nsw.edu.au) undertake 2 weeks of work placement for every Vocational subject including Hairdressing. Many of these students have apprenticeships - which means that they attend work 1 day / week and school 4 days.
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