Our beauty therapy programs are the ideal place to learn the skills and gain the experience necessary for your chosen career in the industry.
Each course provides a good balance of theory and practical assignments, enabling you to build your knowledge and gain experience ready for the working world. You’ll have access to an extensive range of high-quality training facilities, including hair salons, beauty salons, a nail room, and a fabulous spa, all designed to mirror an industrial level.
Beauty Therapy
Learn industry skills
Learn in a professional salon and spa facilities.
Get experience
Work with real paying clients to gain that crucial work experience as you learn.
Beauty Therapy &
Media Makeup
Our Ipswich Campus department, The Zone Spa, Hair & Beauty, consists of six industry standard salons and a spa with integrated Sauna, steams rooms, a dry floatation tank and a monsoon shower. Our Halesworth campus is also equipped with its own eco training Hair salon, Aura. All treatments and hair services are provided to the general public across all courses within the commercial salon time.
Hair & Beauty Industry Partners
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Careers in the Hair & Beauty Sector
Book an open event and come visit us!
Come and visit us on one of our college open event, where you can find out more about our courses, check out our facilities and speak to current learners and staff.
Take a tour of our stunning environments
Tour our Beauty Salon
The Zone has three Beauty Salons that are spacious and include a wide range of specialist equipment for therapists in training including micro-dermabrasion and non-surgical face-lifting machines. Professional product ranges such as Dermalogica and OPI are exciting options for students to use both in training and on paying clients. Manicure, pedicure, facials, waxing body massage, Indian head massage and hot stone massage are some of the treatments that take place within the salons.
Tour our Spa Facilities
Our Spa within the Zone provides a professional spa environment for therapists to train in and for clients to experience top of the range facilities.
Each designated area within the spa is spacious and modern and includes a sauna with colour-change lighting, an exhilarating monsoon shower to provide the ultimate invigorating experience and foot spas with heated seats that gently refresh and massage the feet. Learners value working in here to fine-tune their professional spa skills before entering employment.
Help & Support
Moving from school to college can be something of a culture shock. But at Suffolk New College we’ve created a supportive, social environment where you can easily get access to the help and advice you need, make new friends and get the most out of your time with us.
