Benefits
- Run OUR courses at YOUR school or online
- New courses being added annually
- Set your own fees and adjust courses
- ACS in both Australia and the UK, provides business support and advice
- An online affiliates room provides training videos/audios, promotional documents, artwork etc.
- ACS makes it easy to find tutors; and backs up affiliates with emergency tutor support
- Option for an online bookshop, to sell ebooks
- ACS provides unique software, making it easy to burn courses on CD, access updated files (daily), establish websites (templates supplied).
- Affiliates (Licensees) market, teach and administrate
- ACS takes the difficulty out of establishing a Distance Education school
Who can be an affiliate?
- Established colleges or institutions
- Businesses involved in training who are ready to move into successful online training
- Anyone who is ethical and capable
- Anyone who's ready to run a school
- Any individual or company interested in selling quality educational products
Standard affiliation Contract
- The affiliate delivers the course.
- ACS provides electronic copies which the affiliate can brand & delivery as their own (daily upgrades accessed online via repository)
- ACS supplies additional support (eg. advice, procedures, student room resources, affiliate room, tutor register etc).
- ACS is paid a monthly royalty on courses sold
- For details regarding costs and royalties, please see our "Sample Contract" below under "Want to know more".
- Affiliates are expected to maintain certain ethical and operational standards. (This is normally assured by a requirement to join IARC)
Are We Compatible?
ACS is keen to find affiliates who are like minded and compatible. We expect:
- You are prepared to work with our standard contract.
- You join IARC (International Accreditation & Recognition Council), and maintain your membership
- A visit our UK or Australian office for to fast track becoming familiar with operations and products.
WHAT COSTS ARE INVOLVED?
Affiliates have in the past, set up viable operations with an investment as low as £5,000; and 20 hours a week, though typically the initial investment has been more.
WHAT IS THE BUSINESS POTENTIAL?
- We have seen affiliates grow at rates exceeding 300% per year in their first few years.
- Some (generally those who are either under resourced, or who do not follow our advice)have had very poor growth.
- Some affiliates have achieved sales in excess of 300 courses in a single month.
- If you are serious; we are happy to discuss the potential for you on the phone or in person.
Courses Direct Australia, New Zealand, UK and India are proud to be affiliated with ACS. Not only are the courses of the highest standard and quality, the student feedback is great. We highly recommend any institution to deliver ACS courses.
- Shane Collison, Courses Direct
"Partnering with ACS has given us the ability to greatly expand the range of course we offer our students. During our first year of partnership, the support and encouragement provided by the ACS team has been exceptional."
Matthew Smith, NSW School of Massage
“ Working with an ethical institution like ACS as an affiliate has been a very positive experience. I appreciate the fact that the affiliates are valued highly and any suggestions are taken seriously and acted upon.”
Dr Ramana Panda, Director, Health Academy Australia
"Warnborough is proud to be in partnership with a leading provider of distance learning programmes. ACS students obtain solid course guidance throughout their study programme. The bedrock of ACS, like Warnborough, is academic quality and attention to career needs."
- Dr. Brenden D. Tempest-Mogg, President, Warborough College
Our Products
Distance Education Courses
We offer over 400 courses by distance education which can all be customised for affiliates and run as their own courses.
Online Courses
Over 200 courses which can be offered as online complete with interactive self-tests, lessons and assignments.
E-Learning Courses
Over 200 courses which can be delivered on a CD complete with interactive self-tests, lessons and assignments.
Student Resource Room
We offer sophisticated student resource room software with an online library and many services and facilities to all our affiliates.
Services we can supply you with:
- A license to deliver specified courses
- Options to deliver with or without tuition, using paper-based notes or e-learning
- Electronic copies of courses in a format that is readily branded as your own
- Continuous upgrades (as courses are revised)
- Initial customisation of courses for CD
- Unique Online Student Resource Room branded as your own
- PR support (listings on ACS sites, copy of content for own use on web, media releases, brochures etc)
Student Resource Room:
This provides a virtual community online, giving students opportunities that mirror and exceed benefits previously seen as accessed in classroom education.
Branded to appear as the affiliate's own, and offering a range of automated support services unique to ACS affiliates, including:
- Student Directory, where your students register and list messages and contact details for other students to view and contact them
- Jobs Board, where your students advertise for free -- seeking jobs or seeking employees
- Online Library (most of the listed articles are unique to this library and are not freely available on the internet or in other libraries)
- Image Resizer, allowing students to easily resize images for submitting in assignments
Want to know more?
Want to know more? Click on the following links for more info before registering your interest
Contact Information
UK:
Phone: (UK Only) 0800 328 4723 between 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Fax: International: +44(0)207 6812702 In UK: 0207 6812702
Australia:
Phone: International: +61 7 5562 1088 In Australia: 07 5562 1088
Fax: International: +61 7 5562 1099 In Australia: 07 5562 1099
