Kingston College

Kingston College, part of South Thames Colleges Group, teaches barbering within its hairdressing and barbering department, with practical training delivered in the college’s Headmasters Academy teaching salon at the Kingston Hall Road site. Full-time Level 2 and Level 3 Certificates in Barbering are offered to 16 to 18 year olds, and intensive part-time versions of both run for adults aged 19 and over, with September and February start points.

The full-time Level 2 runs for a year, with up to four days a week in college plus one day of salon work experience and a minimum of 150 hours in the college salon; units cover working in the hair industry, health and safety, client consultation, shampooing and conditioning, cutting and styling men’s hair, cutting facial hair and sales. The 18-week intensive covers scissor cuts, fades, shape-ups, beard grooming and cut-throat shaving, and asks for English at ESOL Level 1.