You learn
- design and visual expressions
- developing creative skills
- developing and using various techniques and expressions
- the history of styles and trends
- communication and customer relations
Hairdressing, floral, interior and retail design is a good choice if you like making creative products and displays for different people, spaces, and occasions. You learn to work with ideas, materials, colours, shapes, techniques, and digital tools. Through practical work, you develop your creative skills and learn how to use different mediums and resources in versatile ways. You also learn how to understand customers’ wishes and needs, follow trends, present products and services, communicate with others, sell your work, and make sustainable choices.
Relevant workplaces
You can take further education at a tertiary vocational college. A tertiary vocational education is a short vocational further education meant for those who have taken vocational education and training.
You can take the master certificate examination if you have the trade or journeyman’s certificate in a trade that comes under the master craftsman’s programme, and have sufficient experience. The master course of studies qualifies you for a management or middle-management position within your trade area, and gives you the competence to start up your own company.
You can take a Vg3 supplementary programme for general university admissions certification – after Vg2 or – after achieving vocational competence. You will then have the option to take higher education at a university college or university. Remember that some study programmes, such as for instance engineering, science and medical studies, require you to have certain science subjects.
You can also apply for admission to higher education after a preliminary course or by the Y-path, the vocational pathway to higher education. The Y-path is intended for those with relevant vocational experience. Preliminary courses and the Y-path are most commonly used for science and engineering studies.