Testimonial - SAKS Aberdeen
James Grant - Senior Director \ ArtTeam member

Training and education of our salon team is very important to the growth and development of our company. At Saks we are committed to providing quality in house training and assessment of S/NVQs. Athena liaises with our assessors to guide and advise us on S/NVQ standards and the planning of individual training and assessment routes. Athena issues our assistants with concise self managed learning packs that greatly help with the delivery of theory knowledge.

Testimonial - MEDUSA Edinburgh
Gordon Watt - Business Director

Medusa is a City & Guilds approved centre in its own right. Athena provides Medusa with quality control systems which include programme coordination, internal verification, back up assessment staff, support to Medusa assessors and administration for Scottish Enterprise. Gordon Watt from Medusa says “Since changing to Athena systems all our assessors and assistants are more aware of what they are trying to achieve and more focused on how they will get there. Achievement of S/NVQ Units has improved 100%”.

Testimonial - FRANCES HUNTER Stirling
Lesley Hunter - Director

Frances Hunter Hairdressing currently has four weekly assessment visits from an Athena assessor. Lesley Hunter enthuses about the improvements she has seen in the coordination of salon training. “Having an allocated assessor visit the salon has kept me very much involved with my assistants assessment and I am more aware of what training is necessary for assistants to achieve Level 2 and Level 3 – this way no one is held back!. Athena suggested how I might develop further into education and as a result, two of our own team members will soon be qualified assessors. I have wanted to take my business in this direction for sometime but I would not have known how to go about it without the advice from Athena.”

Testimonial - RENELLA Falkirk
Tom Miller - Director

We have been training partners with Athena Learning Ltd from their conception and have profited by the connection. There is a "skills shortage" in this area which could cripple an establishment of our size, however, the advice we are given in training and assessing our assisstants has helped us to continue our policy of home growing our own hairdressers and because of this we rarely have to advertise for skilled staff. Without this outside I.V., training schedules would no doubt fall behind to the detriment of the student and frustration of the training advisor. I have no concerns in recommending Athena Learning Ltd to any other Hairdressing establishment.

Testimonial - Dare Inspirational Hairdressers - Aberdeen
John Cooper - Director

Co-ordinating the training and assessment of 14 assistants over two salons can be a daunting task however Athena assessment visits are organised and constructive and ensure all our assistants have training and assessment plans with clear time bound targets.