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Consultation is now open on the names, industry coverage and governance arrangements of the new Workforce Development Councils being established as part of the Reform of Vocational Education. To [...]

Meet this year’s Training Award winners Despite this being a challenging year for people in our industries, HITO received a huge number of entries for this year’s Training awards. A [...]

HITO are seeking to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on the hairdressing industry. Please fill in our short survey to provide input on whether hairdressing qualifications need to change [...]

HITO invites all hairdressing, beauty therapy, barbering and nail technology graduates who completed their qualification between October 12 2019 and October 12 2020 to our annual Graduation [...]

HITO is currently reviewing New Zealand’s hairdressing qualifications to ensure they are fit for purpose, meet the needs of industry and encompass future skills requirements. We encourage all [...]

An interim establishment board has outlined plans for the Workforce Development Council for the Creative, Cultural, Recreation and Technology Sectors (the WDC that will set training standards for [...]

The Government has three support options to help employers retain and bring on new apprentices while dealing with the effects of COVID-19. We’ve outlined the options below. Employers will only be [...]

The Government has announced a wage subsidy to help employers pay new and existing apprentices in their first two years of training. Employers of HITO apprentices in their first or second year [...]

5 June 2020 The Government has announced that apprenticeships will be free of charge from July 1 2020 to 2022. HITO looks forward to welcoming new apprentices to the hairdressing, barbering and [...]