Externally awarded vocational qualification · Initial career training
Beauty and Body Therapy
Dublin College Blackrock · Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland
- Award
- ITEC Beauty Specialist, Facial Electrics, Body Treatments with Body Electrics and Electrolysis qualifications
- Audience & level
- Mature applicants (aged 21 and over)Beginner
- Format
- In person1 Year Full time with option to progress to Year 2 Advanced Beauty Therapy
- Price
- Not published
About this program
One-year full-time course preparing students for ITEC beauty and body therapy qualifications, with an option to progress to a second-year Advanced Beauty Therapy diploma.
- Offering
- Vocational career program
- Fields
- Beauty therapy, Esthetician, Nail technician, Makeup Artistry, Eyebrow technician
- Advertised approaches
- Skin and eye treatments, make-up, manicure, waxing, facial and body electrics, electrolysisAs 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
- ITEC Beauty Specialist, Facial Electrics, Body Treatments with Body Electrics and Electrolysis qualifications
- 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
- International Therapy Examination Council (ITEC)
Stated by the schoolInternational Therapy Examination Council (ITEC)Awarding-body approval
Scope: ITEC beauty therapy qualifications delivered at Dublin College Blackrock
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- 1 Year Full time with option to progress to Year 2 Advanced Beauty Therapy
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-time5 days per week
- Session frequency
- 5 days per week
- Class size
- 72 places
- Teaching location
- Dublin College BlackrockMain Street, Blackrock, Co Dublin
Who it is for and entry requirements
Prior qualification required
- Existing licence or registration
- Not required (as published)
- Prior education
- 5 passes or 5 O6/H7s, or LCA with a Merit profile, or a full relevant QQI Level 4 Award; mature applicants (21 and over) assessed individually
- 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.
- Assessment
- Practical assessment, Written assessment, External examEvidence of treatments (case studies) and ITEC examinations taking place in April and May.
- Kit
- Kit inclusion not published
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.
The provider does not publish a price for this offering on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and any deposit or refund terms.
Funding
Erasmus+ placement funding for second-year students Grant
Basis not stated · Flights, accommodation and day-to-day living expenses
Second-year beauty therapy students
Career support
As described by the provider. It is not a guarantee of work, income or placement.
Lists salon, spa, cruise liner, hotel and teaching careers; second-year students can join an Erasmus+ work placement in Tenerife.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, kit inclusion.
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)