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We spoke to Industry Awards judge and HITO Assessor, Jeremy Scarle. Jeremy started his hairdressing apprenticeship in 2007, after stumbling upon it by chance. It didn’t take long for hairdressing [...]

We were excited to announce the winners of The Industry Awards 2021 last month. Though an online event wasn’t what we initially had planned, we were thrilled to see so many of you log on to [...]

New Zealand is currently in the Red setting of the COVID-19 Protection Framework traffic lights system. During Red, most parts of life continue as usual, but there are some restrictions in place [...]

“My time as a barber apprentice has been such an enjoyable learning experience where I am constantly improving and having fun, friendly banter with awesome people,” says 22-year-old Antonio [...]

As part of the Reform of Vocational Education, HITO is required to transfer its role of supporting  apprenticeship training to another (Government-approved) training organisation by December [...]

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 [...]

A new onsite salon, Hair 4 Change, has opened at Christchurch Women’s Prison to support the prison’s new hairdressing programme. Development of the salon and programme is the result of a two year [...]

The best of New Zealand’s hair, beauty and barbering professionals gathered in Wellington on Sunday for the annual Industry Awards. Hosted by HITO, Kitomba Salon and Spa Software and the New [...]

Few young New Zealanders expect to own their home before they’re 30, let only 20, but for two siblings from Rangiora that’s a reality. Hairdressing apprentice Katie Syme, 20, and mechanical [...]