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We spoke with Allison Murray-Travers, the winner of Industry Assessor of the Year at The Industry Awards 2021, who is a passionate advocate for the hairdressing industry, about her big win and [...]

We spoke with Emma Peterson from Skin and Beauté, about her experience as a HITO apprentice and what she loves about her industry. Emma took out Beauty Therapy Apprentice of the Year at The [...]

Please join us to learn more about HITO and the future of apprenticeship training in hairdressing, beauty therapy and barbering. Kay Nelson, HITO CEO, will be in your region, discussing [...]

The Industry Awards team are thrilled to announce our return for 2022! Entries are open Entries are now officially open, and you can find the forms on our website. We had so many first-time [...]

Long time hairdresser, Janine Simons, won big at The Industry Awards 2021, taking out the Industry Trainer of the Year and Excellence in Marketing awards. We spoke with Janine about her [...]

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 [...]