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About Elite

You're in the right place!

If you enjoy making people feel good about themselves, you’re in the right place. A career in beauty is highly rewarding and the industry is constantly evolving and growing so you will continue to be challenged throughout your career.

Elite School of Beauty & Spa is part of Yoobee Colleges Limited. We’re one of New Zealand’s largest Private Training Establishments, with 7000 students enrolled across five schools, colleges and academies. To find out more, click here.

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Why you should choose Elite

When you study at Elite, you’ll gain a top quality education. We’ll prepare you for the real world, with

  • Brand new qualifications

  • Small classes

  • Hands-on training in our on-site training spas

  • study tours

  • Paid internships and meet and greets with top industry partners

  • Assistance with CV preparation and interviewing skills during each course

  • You’ll also learn with the best quality products in first class training facilities.

We are government funded which means we can offer some fee free courses. We're also NZQA registered, and offer qualifications over Levels 3, 4 and 5 on the NZQA Framework.

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We can help you get a great job

We’ve been around a long time so we know what we are doing. It also means we have amazing industry connections with employers and the beauty industry in general including

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As an Elite student you’ll get access to part time roles while you study, internship opportunities and exclusive graduate offers including the below.

Caci are a key partner for Elite, hiring Beauty Therapists with Level 5 Diploma skills. Each year Caci offer Elite students:

  • Work experience and internship opportunities

  • In depth tour and an inside look at Caci clinic

  • Expert Guest Speakers on campus

  • Full-time employment offers.

The Onboard Spa by Steiner gives Elite students:

  • Yearly Steiner visits to each campus

  • Interview opportunities with the Recruitment

  • Manager for Australia and NZ up to four times a year

  • Career presentations to students

  • Travel opportunities

 

Ragdale Hall (UK), is a leading health spa in the UK offers some Elite students 12 months employment within their beauty therapy business. This will include:

  • Working as a Beauty Therapist in their top beauty therapy salon

  • Access to top product houses Clarins and Elemis

  • External training opportunities

  • Ongoing support and guidance from Ragdale Hall staff

  • Accommodation is available with other Ragdale Hall therapists from the UK and around the world (this is optional and would be deducted from wages for up to a year

Plus we have relationships with Forme, M.A.C, Ultraceuticals, Pure Fiji and Joyce Blok and are forming new industry connections all the time. Elite School of Beauty & Spa is one of the trading names for the registered PTE Yoobee Colleges. Your enrolment is with Yoobee Colleges Ltd and your qualification is issued by Yoobee Colleges.

At Elite we will do everything we can to ensure your satisfaction. If, in the rare occasion we can't, here is our complaints process.

Our rich history

1973

Elite's origins date back to 1973 when a Dutch beauty therapist named Joyce Blok opened the Beauty Therapy College of New Zealand, the first institution to offer professional beauty therapy training in New Zealand. She then went on to open the Joyce Blok institute. Both of these institutions form part of Elite today.

1999 - 2007

The Elite brand was started in 1999 with a single campus in Albany. In 2005 to meet demand from students from the Waikato who wanted training to an international standard without having to travel to Auckland, we opened our first campus in Hamilton. This growth culminated in the opening of a completely refurbished campus in Bryce Street in the center of Hamilton in 2007.

2008 - 2017

Our Elite Wellington campus followed suit at the end of 2008 bringing new professional training opportunities to the Capital. In October 2009 we opened new premises at 3 Broadway in the heart of Newmarket. We moved this campus in January 2017, to a new inner city campus located on Queen Street. This allows Elite students to work in close conjunction with students from our sister school, Cut Above Academy.

2022 - Present

In 2022, we rebranded Tauranga's best-loved beauty therapy and makeup school. Face & Beauty Academy, to become Elite School of Beauty & Spa.