National Occupational Standards

And I think it's important for the audience to understand what the NOS are, because again, there's a lot of conversations that go on around education that I feel is quite ignorant to the facts about education.

NOS stands for National Occupational Standards, and they're overseen by an organisation called HABIA, which is the Hair and Beauty Industry Authority.

So that Habia is has been around forever and you know in Scotland and Wales all of their qualifications are built on the back of the NOS.

So and most qualifications are used in England and I say most because some of the more new ones may not be but certainly that the older sort of qualifications are also all built on the NOS and And in England, those qualifications should incorporate the knowledge and skills and behaviours that are managed by Skills England as well.

It doesn't stand still.

But if you don't have the fundamentals, you can't grow with it.

And I think that having someone like yourself come on and talk about your experience past your history your knowledge your understanding what education is because i think that gets talked about in so many different voices that actually it then becomes quite misunderstood and hopefully our listeners will get a better understanding to qualifications to what education in hairdressing really is about the national occupational standards all of those things so thank you so much for coming and explaining pleasure

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Right, anyway, National Occupational Standards.

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NOS, what are the National Occupational Standards? National Occupational

Standards, there are 1 to 20.

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Mm-hmm.

What we've also added in, and I have to thank Peter Leahy from Na- from NFCC for the, for, for the, his, his, his encyclopedia, uh, uh, like knowledge of the National Occupational Standards of the Apprenticeship Standards.

What Peter has done is then aligned the technique to National Occupational Standards, firefighter apprenticeship.

So essentially what we then have is for the crew and the watch manag- uh, the crew or the watch manager to, instead of having to work their way through whatever it may be, the competency recording-

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some noses Cool.

I think it was episode three, we talked about NOS 1 and 2, National Occupational Standards 1 and 2.

Yeah, go back to that for starters.

And then, well, actually, join us all the way through then to episode 13.