Diploma · Initial career training
Beginners NVQ Level 2 Hairdressing Course
Nicky Oliver Academy · Northern Quarter, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Award
- Nicky Oliver Academy Diploma in Hairdressing
- Audience & level
- Your age and experience is immaterialBeginner
- Format
- In personPart time - 26 weeks (2 days per week) / Full time - 18 weeks (3 days per week)
- Price
- £10,500whole program
About this program
Beginner hairdressing course for people with little or no experience, run part time over 26 weeks or full time over 18 weeks, working towards an NVQ Level 2 and the academy's own diploma.
- Offering
- Vocational career program
- Fields
- Hair styling, Hair Cutting, Hair Coloring
- Advertised approaches
- Cutting, blow drying, basic colouring, highlighting, perm winding, hair-up, basic men's hairAs 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
- Diploma
- Exact award
- Nicky Oliver Academy Diploma in Hairdressing
- Award status
- Provider-issued awardIssued by the school or academy itself. It is not an academic degree or a licence; check separately whether any authority recognises it.
- Awarding body
- Not stated on the pages we checked
Stated by the schoolVTCTAwarding-body approval
Scope: Centre approval for VTCT training (as stated by the academy)
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- Part time - 26 weeks (2 days per week) / Full time - 18 weeks (3 days per week)
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-time, Part-timeMonday, Tuesday & Wednesday - 10:00am to 5:00pm
- Session frequency
- 2 or 3 days per week
- Teaching location
- Nicky Oliver Academy, Northern Quarter32 Oldham Street, Lower Ground, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M1 1JN
Who it is for and entry requirements
Open enrollment
- Existing licence or registration
- Not required (as published)
- Experience
- No experience required
- 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.
- Kit
- Kit includedFull hairdressing kit included
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.
Funding
Payment plan Payment plan
Basis not stated
Sources and verification
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)