The Ed.
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While you may be worrying about your future if you are a student of The Carlton Institute, you can rest assured that the awarding body VTCT has pledged their support as the beauty school has been placed into liquidation.
While the Directors of The Carlton Institute have not yet released any comment, it has been confirmed that liquidator Leonard Curtis has been appointed and has confirmed that the company has ceased trading.
VTCT has said it will help students transfer their courses to new centres.
Speaking to Professional Beauty, VTCT chief executive Stephen Vickers said, "We accept we have a moral and financial duty to all students registered with us and we have a network of centres that have agreed to help."
The biggest obstacle the VTCT face however was identifying all the students. The Carlton Institute had agreed to hand over all student portfolios but this amounted to only 60 despite the Institute consisting of eleven schools.
"They also admitted that only about a third of the students they put on VTCT courses had been registered with us," added Vickers, "so there are two thirds of their students minus the ones we have portfolios for that we are trying to trace, and we are anxious to hear from them."
The students that The Carlton Institute had registered with VTCT will be directly transferred to a new centre without charge. However, those that the Institute did not register are likely to be required to pay again to re-register.
Vickers also said, "We do want to make it clear to students that they may have paid upfront tuition fees to The Carlton Institute but only about £60 or £70 of that comes to VTCT for registration."
Vickers confirmed that the VTCT would be happy to help those studying non-VTCT courses too. "We are a charity and will help anyone we can. We understand this is a hard situation because people may have spent all the money they had to study with The Carlton Institute and cant afford to start again."
In their efforts to support students, the VTCT will be holding an open day for former Carlton Institute students. Students will be able to seek out advice and support.
VTCT has called for all students of The Carlton Institute to contact them via [email protected] with the subject line Carlton Student.
Sussex-based machines and skincare supplier The Carlton Group (also known as Carlton Beauty & Spa) has asked that we make it clear that it is in no way connected to The Carlton Institute and is not in financial difficulties.
Until then...geek on!
The Ed.
While the Directors of The Carlton Institute have not yet released any comment, it has been confirmed that liquidator Leonard Curtis has been appointed and has confirmed that the company has ceased trading.
VTCT has said it will help students transfer their courses to new centres.
Speaking to Professional Beauty, VTCT chief executive Stephen Vickers said, "We accept we have a moral and financial duty to all students registered with us and we have a network of centres that have agreed to help."
The biggest obstacle the VTCT face however was identifying all the students. The Carlton Institute had agreed to hand over all student portfolios but this amounted to only 60 despite the Institute consisting of eleven schools.
"They also admitted that only about a third of the students they put on VTCT courses had been registered with us," added Vickers, "so there are two thirds of their students minus the ones we have portfolios for that we are trying to trace, and we are anxious to hear from them."
The students that The Carlton Institute had registered with VTCT will be directly transferred to a new centre without charge. However, those that the Institute did not register are likely to be required to pay again to re-register.
Vickers also said, "We do want to make it clear to students that they may have paid upfront tuition fees to The Carlton Institute but only about £60 or £70 of that comes to VTCT for registration."
Vickers confirmed that the VTCT would be happy to help those studying non-VTCT courses too. "We are a charity and will help anyone we can. We understand this is a hard situation because people may have spent all the money they had to study with The Carlton Institute and cant afford to start again."
In their efforts to support students, the VTCT will be holding an open day for former Carlton Institute students. Students will be able to seek out advice and support.
VTCT has called for all students of The Carlton Institute to contact them via [email protected] with the subject line Carlton Student.
Sussex-based machines and skincare supplier The Carlton Group (also known as Carlton Beauty & Spa) has asked that we make it clear that it is in no way connected to The Carlton Institute and is not in financial difficulties.
Until then...geek on!
The Ed.