International beauty and spa therapy standard-setter CIDESCO has revised entry requirements for its Beauty & Spa Management diploma. The organisation said this comes as a result of growing demand for management training in the beauty and spa industry.

The diploma is now a complete training course which does not require the student to have any beauty or spa therapy experience; previously, study for this diploma was only available to postgraduate students who held the CIDESCO beauty or spa diploma.

“There has been a growing demand for management skills in beauty and spa businesses and a shortage of people to fill these roles,” said CIDESCO president Anna-Cari Gund. “We recognise that it isn’t always necessary for a manager to have beauty or spa therapy skills, and while we still believe this can be an advantage, we wanted to open up our knowledge and training skills to benefit those people who could be business leaders of the future.”