CHUK July/August2018

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THE NEWS AND KNOW-HOW FROM YOUR INDUSTRY
FIGURES REVEAL
SHARP DROP IN
APPRENTICESHIPS
SINCE THE INTRODUCTION of the
Trailblazer apprenticeships last May, there
has been a decline in the number of new
apprentices across all sectors. Overall, there
has been a loss of more than 75,000 on those
starting their programmes between August
2017 and January 2018, compared with the
same period in the previous year.
The data was released by the Department
for Education and further revealed that
there are currently just under 5,000 learners
on hairdressing Trailblazer or framework
apprenticeship programmes, compared with
more than 8,000 hairdressing apprenticeship
starts at NVQ Level 2 in the last academic year.
Hilary Hall, chief executive of the NHF, said:
“It is difficult to tell whether hairdressing
apprenticeships are also down compared
with previous years because the drop has
coincided with the changeover to the new
Trailblazer standards, as well as changes to
apprenticeship funding. However, there is a lot
of ground to make up if the current number of
starts are to reach last year’s levels.”
Much has been made of the apprenticeship
levy as the main reason for the drop in
apprenticeship numbers, but Hellen Ward,
chair of the hair professional Trailblazer,
believes it’s more complicated than that as the
levy only applies to businesses with a payroll
bill of £3m or more a year – so very few salons
would fall into the group.
Keith Mellen, director at Anne Veck, has
found the new hairdressing Trailblazer to
be much better than the old standard of
apprenticeships. He said: “The old framework
didn’t work – for years salon owners had been
saying it didn’t produce job-ready hairdressers,
so it is a vast improvement. The old framework
had become unpopular throughout the
industry because of the fall in standards at
NVQ Level 2.”
MEET THE
FINALISTS!
Discover who made
the Most Wanted and
The It List Grand Final
from page 44
Judgement day
for Most Wanted
and The It List
YOU ENTERED in your hundreds, but only a select few made it onto the
2018 Most Wanted and The It List Awards shortlists. Each category was
judged by its own panel of experts from inside and outside the industry,
which saw a throng of names in hair, fashion, publishing and business– roll
up to knuckle down and assess what was without doubt the toughest two
days of judging – EVER. These included session stylists Nicola Clarke and
Ken O’Rourke, The Daily Telegraph’s Sonia Haria and Vogue’s Jessica Diner,
fashion designer Harry Evans and make-up artist Lan Nguyen-Grealis.
The Grand Final takes places on 3 September at the Natural History
Museum in Kensington. Tickets are sold out, but there’s a waiting list
you can join. We hope to see you on the big night! See page 44 or visit
creativeheadmag.com for more information
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