Externally awarded vocational qualification · Initial career training
Beauty Therapy - Accelerated Learning Programme
Cardiff and Vale College · Barry, Wales, United Kingdom
- Award
- VTCT Level 1 & 2 (PAL) Diploma in Beauty Therapy
- Audience & level
- Teens & Adults
- Format
- In person1 September 2026 - 18 June 2027, 20 hours per week
- Price
- Not published
About this program
Full-time combined Level 1 and 2 VTCT beauty therapy diploma taught in a commercial salon, with practice on classmates, models and paying clients plus mandatory Saturday salon rota and work experience.
- Offering
- Vocational career program
- Fields
- Beauty therapy, Esthetician, Nail technician, Makeup Artistry, Eyebrow technician
- Advertised approaches
- Facials, waxing, manicure, pedicure, make up, eyebrow and eyelash enhancement, cream and spray tanningAs advertised by the provider; this does not imply affiliation with any practitioner’s organisation.
- Purpose
- Initial career training
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Externally awarded vocational qualification
- Exact award
- VTCT Level 1 & 2 (PAL) Diploma in Beauty Therapy
- Award status
- Vocational qualificationAwarded by a national or external awarding body, named on the listing. It is not by itself a licence to practise.
- Awarding body
- VTCT
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- 1 September 2026 - 18 June 2027, 20 hours per week
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-timeDay Time, 20 hours per week
- Session frequency
- 20 hours per week
- Teaching location
- Barry CampusCardiff and Vale College, Barry Campus, Vale of Glamorgan, CF62 8YJ
Who it is for and entry requirements
Entry requirements not published
The pages we checked do not describe entry requirements. Missing information does not mean open enrollment; ask the provider.
- Intakes
- 2026-09-01
- Official enrollment
- Enrollment instructions
Current enrollment availability is not confirmed here; check dates and places with the provider.
Practice, assessment and kit
As published by the provider. Mannequins, simulation, live models and workplace experience are different things and are named separately.
- Practice arrangements
- Live-model practice, Workplace experience
- Assessment
- Practical assessment, Written assessmentAssignments, worksheets and online multi-choice question exams as well as practical assessments on clients.
- Kit
- Kit not includedStudents purchase a uniform, beauty kit, make up kit and text book (approx. total of £500).
Fees
Original currency is authoritative. Tuition, registration, kit, consumables, uniform and assessment charges are listed separately. Each price keeps its basis and is never converted, and an instalment is never the total.
Career support
As described by the provider. It is not a guarantee of work, income or placement.
Progression to Level 3 Beauty Therapy or Level 3 Theatrical Make-Up.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, entry requirements, experience level.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 23 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 23 October 2026)