This Barbering course offers detailed skills training in all aspects of barbering and men’s hair grooming. You’ll learn practical skills and the underpinning theory and science to prepare you for a career in this occupational area, including cutting men’s hair, cutting men’s facial hair and shaving, and the essential underpinning knowledge.

Barbering offers many employment opportunities, and our course leads to an internationally-recognised qualification. You will have opportunities to develop your skills and build a portfolio of work that will help you to progress to employment.

This programme is designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and competence to use barbering techniques within a salon/barber environment. You will acquire a range of barbering skills to include the use of tools such as clippers, scissors, razors, and combs. In addition to haircuts, you will be equipped to provide services like scalp massages, and eyebrow shaping, focusing on enhancing clients’ appearance and personal grooming. This course provides you with the skills required if you intend to run your own barbering business in the future.

Fishing Vessel (Basic Safety Training) Regulations, 2001 (S.I. 587 of 2001) require all fishing vessel crew members to undergo Basic Safety Training. This three day programme is run at all of BIM’s training centres and consists of the following:

STCW-PST Personal Survival Techniques
STCW-EFA Elementary First Aid
SKL–FPSA Fire Prevention and Safety Awareness (BIM non-certified course given in addition by BIM)

Cost: €150

The aim of the course is to provide the student with the skills and related knowledge in Manual Metal Arc (MMA) welding, M.I.G. welding and T.I.G. welding and to develop their attitudes, personal effectiveness and job seeking skills to enable them to obtain employment as welders.

The BCL degree focuses on experiential learning and developing practical legal skills while also providing you with opportunities to engage with industry and the wider legal profession. In particular, the Moot Court module gives you the chance to practise your court-room skills and gain a real insight into law in action. DCU has its own Moot Court room which is where you will participate in mock trials and practise skills such as advocacy, presenting evidence or cross examination. 

Individuals who seek to progress you career to higher level roles in the Beauty Industry, then the Professional Diploma in Beauty Therapy will support your ambitions.

You learn highly specialised skills in all aspects of Beauty Treatments, including laser, micro-dermabrasion and intense pulsed light treatments. There is an intensive focus on high level professional practice which will set-up you for a senior level role in the Beauty Treatments industry.

This course will enable students to work with world-renowned professional skincare and body products, such as Yonka, to develop practical expertise in a range of treatments. Students will complete case studies on guest clients for each module, performing treatments such as body massage and figure analysis, microdermabrasion and IPL, and learning correct use of body electrical machines.

As part of this Beauty Aesthetics and Body Treatments course, students actively design, set up and participate in the Institute’s commercial salon, which runs on a weekly basis. This experience empowers the students, building their confidence to make the transition to professional beauty therapist. Additional workshops may be offered in eyelash extensions, lash perming, BIAB nails and threading.

The aim of this training programme is to enable students to acquire the skills, knowledge and attitudes to work effectively as a beauty therapist. The programme aims to enable the student through practical experience to integrate the theoretical and practical aspects of working in the beauty industry.

We run a training Salon. This is to help learners to gain confidence, practice and work experience before they leave the centre. As well as gaining your VTCT qualification learners complete other QQI modules to help with their progression in their new career. This gives learners a great start in their Beauty Career.

The training required for ITEC produces beauty therapists that are an asset to any salon. It is the highest standard in Beauty Therapy qualifications. ITEC graduates are recognised by employers as therapists who work harder and aim higher. An ITEC Beauty Therapy qualification is an internationally recognised beauty qualification.

This challenging course leads to an internationally recognised qualification in beauty therapy that will ensure you are educated to the highest industry standards so that you can take on this new and exciting career as well as providing you with the skills to set up a solid career in the Beauty Therapy. GTI prides itself on the success of POISE, its in-house beauty salon which is organised and managed by the students and teachers on this programme. It will set you up to work in a thriving and dynamic profession. Students complete professional certified training with Dermalogica Skincare, B Perfect Make-up and Lycon Waxing