New Zealand Certificate in Foundation Skills (Level 2)

This qualification is intended to assist people engaging or re-engaging with learning who have the basic capabilities needed to pursue education or employment pathways, but require further development to confidently use them to succeed in those pathways.

It recognises the importance of applying core capabilities such as confidence, basic knowledge and skills, and literacy and numeracy, in a range of familiar contexts.

Cut Above Academy has been giving students the edge they need to become hairstylists, makeup and special effects artists of the future for more than 40 years.

The academy's commitment to giving students the skills for success makes it the ideal first step along a career path in the exciting hairdressing and creative makeup and sfx industries.

Cut Above is here to make graduates industry-ready so they can step up and perform at the top of their game.