BTec geeks, come on down!

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Thought I would start this thread for us BTec geeks to talk about our experiences on the course, and perhaps help geeks who are currently studying for it.

There seems to be a lot of NVQ geeks here, and the NVQ's do differ from BTec, so here we go!

I finished my BTec course last year at Lincoln College - loved every second of it!

finished up with DMM (IVA let me down or I would have been straight DDD)


how about you?

 

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come on btec geeks surely theres not just me here! It's important to raise the profile of this course otherwise salon owners will end up thinking we are a pre-requisite for NVQ!!!

(NOT slating NVQ at all here, its just true that SOME employers really do think BTec is a short course you take before you can enroll on NVQ!!)

 

[Tegie]

Hi there!

Could you tell me more about the BTec please? i.e. how it differs to the NVQ. havent really seen anything about the BTec. When I search for training I always end up looking on sites that offer NVQs...

I was sort of under the impression that the BTec had ceased to exist/had been replaced by the NVQ but from what you have said thats not correct???

 

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have emailed you hun

BTec is very much alive and kicking!


come on geeks am I really the only BTec trained geek here??

 

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am bumping this up in the hope I am not the only btec trained geek on here! lol!

 

[kelly!!]

my make up artist course is a btec the college iam at changed it from an NVQ to BTEC because they said it was a more recognised in the industry.:hug:

 

[shel84]

so whats the diffrence with an ITEC? i got mine a few years back now. its just internationally recognised rather than british? am i totally wrong? lol

 

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my feeling is that BTec is far less recognised in this country than NVQ - when looking for work experience I had seasoned, established salon owners telling me they had never heard of BTec Nat Dip in Beauty Therapy Sciences, and was I 'special needs'????
I don't know much about the ITEC course, sorry.

But I am unofficially declaring myself the BTec geek so if anyone has any q's about the course, grading criteria, IVA or anything at all please ask!

 

[Tilly Warby]

helllooo!

sorry i am several months late to this thread!
I also did a BTEC in applied sciences -beauty therapy and i totally agree that the BTEC has less status..but its a higher qualification!!..as you would normally do a NVQ2 the progress to NVQ 3, where a BTEC is already set at the higher level! But i have found this unusual qualifcation more of a help than a hinderance!..because not many other people seem to have it in the country, so that puts me ahead of others, well in the education sector it does. But out in industry i think it is less recognised, but i definatly feel we will be sticking to the NVQ route, as its slightly easier than the BTEC! Oh well!,, i'll stop my ramble now!

 

[Martin Duffy]

Many years ago when I was a wee lad(!), I did the BTEC National for one year but got bored & so went onto the Higher National Diploma. I have friends who are on NVQ's & to be honest I was suprised at how short they are & how little theory & so forth is involved. I had to do 5 days a week for two years, and they were whole days, not these little half days they seem to do now! On top of that, one of the days was a 'salon day' where we did treatments from 9.30 till 5.00 on members of the public, thus ensuring we had plenty of supervised experience.