We're the Obvious Choice

94%

Our students who gained at least one or more qualifications in their course

90%

Our graduates who gained 80% of higher score overall in their course

17%

Our graduates who gained 90% of higher score overall in their course

97%

Our students who sat and passed external international examinations

93%

Our graduates who gained employment or went on to further study

37%

Members of our student body who are aged 25 and older

30%

Members of our student body who are from somewhere else beside Christchurch

Since 1985, we have been teaching quality beauty therapy, nail technology and spa therapy courses to an internationally-recognised level.

We're older than our youngest students!

In our 26 years of operation thus far, we've trained thousands of beauty therapists, nail technicians and spa therapists.

We remain the longest established and most successful beauty therapy, nail technology and spa therapy provider in the South Island and amongst the oldest and most successful in New Zealand.

We are owned and operated by all our original owners.

Noel Turner and Don Kendall are highly qualified in beauty therapy, nail technology and post-graduate areas; they're here at the school and not sitting behind a desk in some other building or city. Our staff also have over 100 years combined experience!

We can offer quality internationally-recognised qualifications proven as industry-recognised.

ITEC and CIDESCO are the major international, industry-recognised qualifications in New Zealand. You want to travel after you've graduated? These are the qualifications that will allow you to do that.

We're renowned for our high quality training.

We've had good audit reports from the NZQA (three year audit cycle: the top one), TEC and Bureau Vertias. Our pass rates continue to be higher than the national and international average.

All our 40+ credit courses are NZQA-approved.

They meet stringent NZQA, ITEC and CIDESCO requirements.

Our courses teach you the skills and techniques you need.

These courses are not product-based; the main goal is to enable you to become a professional and empower you with the knowledge to make an informed choice about the products you use, not tell you what product to use.

We have only twelve students maximum per most practical classes.

That's all! Six students work on the other six students in most practical sessions in most programmes. Nail technology students have 6 students per class. This is amongst the smallest class sizes in New Zealand.

We are selective in enrolment.

Our interview process ensures our directors choose those who show the highest promise.

We enrol students from around New Zealand.

Students move from places as far a field from Christchurch as Gisborne, Wellington, Invercargill, Nelson, Dunedin and even Auckland to study with us!

We provide the products in your training.

Your school fees pay for the products used in the course you are enrolled in. You don't need any product kits while you're at the school training!

We have qualified some of the therapists working on nearly every continent and in nearly every body of water around the world.

We even have a world-renowned cruise ship company holding interviews at the school on an annual basis!

We specialise in professional development training.

The National School of Aesthetics is growing its programmes to include professional development training, and remains in the minority of beauty therapy providers who can offer you professional development opportunities with further education through several different avenues.

We heavily subsidise our courses with the funding the government provides.

The majority of government subsidy funding we receive for every eligible student goes directly into the training, subsidising the qualification cost. Whilst the government envisaged this exact reason for this money to be paid, we are one of only a handful of PTEs offering beauty therapy applying the subsidy to the courses directly. This means you pay on average between $3,000NZ and $6,000NZ less for our Beauty Therapy qualification than its equivalent at another PTE.

We use professional products in our training.

We buy quality products the professionals use for students to use once they are properly instructed in the product.

We have amongst the highest student-to-equipment ratios in the country.

We purchase our equipment new from reputable dealers and suppliers, and only purchase brand name equipment.

We tend to be a school of firsts.

We have been the first to do a lot of things, including the first beauty therapy school in New Zealand to have an email account (1993), the first to have a Web page (1996), the first to move into a high rise office building, the first to move into an exclusive office park (1997), the first to use the government subsidies to reduce qualification costs (2000), the first to be AS/NZS ISO 9001:2000 accredited (2002), the first to have a two-year NZQA Audit cycle (2002), the first private beauty therapy school to offer its students email accounts (2004), the first to have a three-year NZQA Audit cycle (2004) and the first to offer a zero course fees Certificate in Nail Technology (2005), reduced fees for the Certificate in Nail Technology (2006) and the first South Island provider to offer NZQA-Approved spa therapy courses (2006), and the first provider in New Zealand to offer a pure spa therapies diploma-level course (2008). We also are the first private beauty therapy school to offer students a secure, on-line forum to discuss qualification-related issues (2005). We are the first NZQA-Registered provider to offer an NZQA-Approved Diploma-level Spa Therapies course (2008). We continue to push the fold, and others follow where we lead.

Your future is in your hands.

We have given you several reasons as to why we believe you should choose the National School of Aesthetics, but ultimately you are the one who decides. We have offered thousands of students training, and the large majority of them have used us as a launching point to follow and pursue their dreams. Become a leader in this exciting industry through us!