Monday, 25 October 2021

Whoopy Yun Fashion College is Approved by NABTEB & BOTAVED

 Yeeeeeeaaaaahh!!!!! πŸ’ƒπŸ’ƒπŸ’ƒ Whoopy Yun Fashion College is fully approved by NABTEB and BOTAVEDπŸ’ƒπŸ’ƒπŸ’ƒπŸ’ƒ. 

What does this means for us? it means Whoopy Yun Fashion College is approved to operate as a technical and vocational college and has been approved to conduct all NABTEB examinations, O.Level, A.Level and modular examinations.

it means we can enroll young people with or without WAEC results, help them achieve their dream of being the best in their field of choice, either to be certified as an artisan, get O.Level result and OND/A.Level, to further their studies or to setup a business,  as well as direct them towards pursuing their career goals both in and outside Nigeria.





1. What is NABTEB? It is National Business and Technical Examinations Board, it was established in 1992 to domesticate craft level examinations which were hitherto conducted by City & Guilds, Pittman’s, and Royal Society of Arts hall of UK in accordance with the provisions of the National Policy on Education.

What examination(s) does NABTEB conduct?

The four major examinations conducted by NABTEB are:
  • May/June NBC/NTC Examinations
  • November/December NBC/NTC & ANBC/ANTC Examinations
  • Modular Trades Certificate Examinations (MTCE)
  • National Common Entrance Examinations.
  • NBC means National Business Certificate.
  • NTC means National Technical Certificate. 
  • ANBC means Advanced National Business Certificate.
  • ANTC means Advanced National Technical Certificate.
  •  MTCE means Modular Trades Certification Examination, this will service persons who wish to acquire effective capacity in components of a trade. For example, fashion designing, hairdressing, photography,printing,ICT,makeup etc.

What is the Difference Between NABTEB and WAEC/NECO?

Briefly, WAEC is meant for academic pursuit only. By this, it means, you write WAEC in order to use the result for admission purposes. Whereas, NABTEB are for both admission use and job purpose. This is because it's a more technical-based exam than WAEC/NECO. The NABTEB type for professional and job purpose is called NABTEB Advanced or A'level NABTEB. The advanced is equally acceptable for employment purposes as they are equivalent to the Ordinary National Diploma (OND) or the National Certificate of Education (NCE).

How Can I Obtain NABTEB O'level Exams and its Advanced Level? 

There are several NABTEB examination centers around the country where you can write May/June or November/December NBC/NTC Certificate Examinations. The Ordinary Level NABTEB can be obtained at several vocational centers and continuous education institutes around the country including Whoopy Yun Fashion College.

But for NABTEB Advanced Level, a few centers are saddled with the conduct of the exams. Luckily! Whoopy Yun Fashion College is one of the few centers approved in Nigeria.

For more details and enquiry about joining Whoopy Yun Fashion College and writing all NABTEB Examinations and certification for your migration contact us at 
Whoopy Yun Fashion College office
1 Akintola Osundosumu Crescent, Off Adeoyo state hospital road, Ring Road, Ibadan.

You can send us email: contact@whoopyyun.com or whoopyyunc@gmail.com
or call/Whatsapp us on 08068614641 or 08035068092

XoXo Whoopy Yun



Cohort 4 of the MAGI free training is onπŸ’ƒπŸ’ƒ

On the 20th of October,2021, Mother and Girl-Child  Initiative (MAGI) a Non Governmental Organization in Ibadan, Oyo state, in collaboration with Whoopy Yun Fashion College, a fashion training institute in Ibadan, Oyo state, started the 4th cohort of the free fashion design training. 
The training target young vulnerable women and out-of-school girls in Ibadan.πŸ’ͺπŸ™ŒπŸ’ƒπŸ’ƒ
Sneak-peak of the first day 

We started with sharing of training kits and introduction to tools and kits used in the sewing room.




We look forward to the wonderful works that will come out of this collaboration.
XoXo Whoopy Yun




Saturday, 9 October 2021

Whoopy Yun Fashion School is partnering with MAGI

 On Friday 8th October, 2021, Whoopy Yun Fashion House and Mother and Girl Child Initiative (MAGI) reached an agreement to start another cohort of fashion design training.

MAGI is a not for profit and Non Governmental Organization that protect the welfare of mothers and their children especially the girl-child. MAGI has several projects that push their goals, one of such goal is skill acquisition for girl-child, MAGI has several skills acquisition courses such as fashion designing, catering, hairdressing, makeup, ICT, decoration, event planning etc.












Whoopy Yun Fashion School has been partnering with MAGI since 2017 and we have empowered over 100 students with fashion and entrepreneurship skills. 

We are glad to announce that on October 18th, 2021, we will be starting another  6 months fashion design and entrepreneurship training, we shall be taking in 25 young girls, we cant wait to see the exploit the girls will be making.

XoXo

Whoopy Yun


The illustration journey of our students

 The journey of fash4dev has been a rollercoaster with different ups and downs, but has sure been an adventure for us, our partners and for the students. WorldConnect US has been an awesome support through the journey.

the illustration journey of our student has been so tremendous, just take a look at some of their works.








You think this is awesome too? yes we thought so too but this is not how we started.

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You think its hilarious too. 

We still believe they are work in progress but we keep pushing and we keep learning.

XoXo

Whoopy Yun



Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Whoopy Yun's first nomination πŸ€ΈπŸ½πŸ•ΊπŸΌπŸ’ƒπŸΌ

2020 has been an interesting year, like everything about life, its been filled with different ups and downs.

We started the year doing our own thing, doing what we know how to do best, impacting knowledge, first we got our first mini-grant to train women which debut our fash4dev cohort1, fash4dev is an initiative of Whoopy Yun fashion house and Whoopy Yun fashion school to raise 1,000 youths out of unemployment and extreme poverty, with this initiative we met 12 wonderful women. Fash4dev has its different challenges and as we are trying to weather the storm, covid-19 strike and shut down the world, we temporarily suspended all trainings and business activities, for a WHOLE MONTH, it was a tough period, one we are yet to recover from. Life of an entrepreneur you sayπŸ˜’πŸ˜•
Waking up this morning to see an Instagram notification, we checked and boom!πŸ’₯ we have been nominated for fashion school of the year πŸ’ƒπŸΌπŸ•ΊπŸΌπŸ’ƒπŸΌπŸ€ΈπŸ½πŸ€ΈπŸ½πŸ€ΈπŸ½πŸ€ΈπŸ½πŸ€ΈπŸ½πŸ€ΈπŸ½πŸ•ΊπŸΌπŸ’ƒπŸΌ,  keeping calm was hard and is still hardπŸ’ƒπŸΌπŸ•ΊπŸΌπŸ€ΈπŸ½πŸ’ƒπŸΌπŸ€ΈπŸ½πŸ˜ŽπŸ•Ά because we are not sure who nominated us, but we sure love the feeling that someone somewhere think we deserve to be at the topπŸ’ƒπŸΌπŸ•ΊπŸΌπŸ€ΈπŸ½.

Someone somewhere is watching what we do and believe in us, its not a win yet but we sure feels like a winner. We say a big thank you to the person(s) who nominated usπŸ™πŸΌ thank you, nag ode, ese,Dalu.

We need you all to support us during the voting period and with your help we can take the award home.

XoXo Whoopy Yun



Saturday, 7 March 2020

Fash4dev: Digital space meets fashion

It is no longer news that we are Ina digital world, it is also not a big deal if you hear about website or apps for different use, however thousands of businesses still exist in Africa without an online presence, thousands of businesses in Nigeria are still not benefitting from the power of technology and enjoy the tremendous opportunities available in the digital space.
For our students not to be a part of the stone age fashion designers, we invited one of the Ibadan finest web and app designers, who is also a google representative in Ibadan Mr Femi Akintoye to speak with our students on the power of app and website for businesses.
It was a fun time learning and the Q&A time was really fun.

Guess what!!!! πŸ€” All Whoopy Yun students and #fash4dev students are getting a huge discount on web design from himπŸ’ƒπŸΌπŸ’ƒπŸΌπŸ’ƒπŸΌπŸ’ƒπŸΌπŸ’ƒπŸΌ.
One more reason to join us at Whoopy Yun Fashion School.
For us at Whoopy Yun we are not just Simplifying the Science,art and craft of fashion, we are taking our student to the next big level, its fashion beyond sewing.

Tuesday, 3 March 2020

Fashion Illustration at Whoopy Yun Fashion School

It is a known fact that not everyone who can sew can create style, what makes a fashion designer is not just the ability to sew, but ability to do so many things that involves creating a complete fabulous garments.
At Whoopy Yun Fashion School, we are teaching our students how to sew, how to identify fabrics, what fabrics works for what styles and we are teaching our students how to dig deep into their creativity well, how to be innovative in the fashion world,how to envision a style in their mind/head and turn it into a real picture with our design and Illustration class.
The new set of students started yesterday 2nd March,2020, we asked them to try and drawπŸ€£πŸ˜‚ and we all laughed at the different drawings but as the class proceeds, we can clearly see some improvements and its just a class by the end of the month, wonderful croquis and illustration with painting will emerge from Whoopy Yun fashion school students, not just that we will birth the new generation of fashionprenuers.
YES you can............ if LEARN how to.

XoXo
 Whoopy Yun

Friday, 7 February 2020

Whoopy Yun: Raising Fashion Giants in Africa

So many businesses in Africa die with the founder for different reasons ranging from lack of leadership skills, vision less, lack of structure and process, no good successors etc, the case is not different in the fashion industry, most fashion businesses die sometimes when the founder is alive and sometimes when the founder die, again several researches had given different reasons for such failures.
At Whoopy Yun Fashion School, we wanted to raise fashion enterprenuers who will establish a successful and sustainable fashion businesses, to do these we embarked on a mini research and we found 2 major factors that make fashion businesses in Africa die prematurely are 
1. Lack of skill: a lot can sew but few can sew professionally.
2. Paucity of business running skills: its easy to start a business (if you have access to money/capital), but really hard to run a business successfully.
To bridge these gap, we don't just teach our students how to sew, we teach them how to sew professionally and how to run a successful and sustainable business in our environment, we are raising African giantsπŸ’ͺ🏼πŸ’ͺ🏼
So we started a new cohort of #fash4Dev and we invited a business coach, Mr Wale Adebayo to take our students on entrepreneurship class and it has been wow!!! 
He taught setting up a business, raising capital, setting goals, vision, getting staff, marketing, systems & processes etc I am sure our students lives and businesses will never remain the same after his teachings, we shall be having more facilitators come in. 
Watch out for these women!

XoXo Whoopy Yun

Thursday, 6 February 2020

Fash4Dev debut

It is no longer news that there is inequality and poverty in the world, as much as different research from different organizations shows that poverty is reducing, the reality on the street is different, Nigeria recently became the poverty capital and the reality in everyday experience is just not something i am Comfortable with.
For a very long time i was angry that i was given birth into the enviromnent i find myself, i see how babies die due to simple sickness the parents couldnt handle either due to none availability of health center, no money to pay private hospital or pausity of equipments at hopitals, i hate to see children malnourished, kids hawking on the streets exposed to different types of dangers and vices, the list is endless.
I wanted to help, I wanted to help people get people out of extreme poverty, but I don't know how to.
 Fash4Dev means fashion for development, it was born out of the need to reduce rising youth unemployment by creating jobs in the fashion industry.
 I have been working on the dream by training people with the little available resources. Recently, we got support from a US based organization called World Connect, world connect provided us with equipments for sewing and the equipment that aids both teaching and learning. 
We selected wonderful women that made teaching easy and the support we got from friends, family, colleagues, neighbors and total strangers has been WOW!!! 
I believe an individual can make impact and the ripple effect of the impact is unknown. Do your best for humanity.
XoXo Whoopy Yun😁