Instructor qualifications

  1. Law
  2. Arkansas Code
  3. Professions, Occupations, and Businesses
  4. Nonmedical Professions
  5. Cosmetology and Related Occupations
  6. Cosmetological Schools and Establishments
  7. Instructor qualifications

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  1. (a)

    1. (1)

      1. (A) A person employed in a school to instruct students in the school shall be licensed as an instructor in the field in which he or she specializes.

      2. (B) A licensed instructor in good standing is not required to renew his or her specialty license.

    2. (2) A licensed instructor shall:

      1. (A) Be twenty-one (21) years of age or older and have had six hundred (600) hours of teacher training in a school of cosmetology;

      2. (B) Have passed an instructor's written examination given by the Department of Health, a practical examination administered by the school, and have received an instructor's license; and

      3. (C) Have received not less than eight (8) hours of additional training in an instructor's training seminar or continuing education course certified by the department.

  2. (b) A licensed instructor shall not teach outside the profession in which the license to practice allows.

  3. (c) A cosmetology school shall offer an education in cosmetology regardless of whether the curriculum includes a specialty course.


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