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Pet Life Span

By ACS Distance Education on October 22, 2025 in Animals | comments

The most common pets in many countries are are dogs, cats, fish and birds. When deciding to bring a new pet into your home, it is important to consider their life expectancy, as some animals live far longer than others.

The longevity of any pets will be affected by diet, breed and environment.  Let’s take a look at the life expectancy of these different types of pets.

 

Write a Resume to Impress the Employer

By ACS Distance Education on December 4, 2024 in Jobs Success | comments

Some resumes stand out and impress the employer. As a result, you may be one of the chosen few who get through the job application screening, and are offered a chance to impress at an interview.

Here are a few tips you should follow.

 

Learning - Permanent or Temporary?

By ACS Distance Education on February 26, 2024 in Careers, Education, Jobs Success & Psychology | comments

Learning is a journey that takes time. Seeing something in different contexts, repeatedly will reinforce it in memory.

Seeing it once and never revisiting it is not learning.

When it comes to learning Use it or Loose it - and the best way to learn in the first instance is to use it. 

 

Challenge Based Learning

By ACS Distance Education on December 20, 2023 in Education & Jobs Success | comments
Challenge based learning has become a trending way to view education. The idea is to provide students with a learning journey built around a series of challenges. We know that people can learn by dealing with and overcoming a challenge. CBL can be a very effective and potent way of learning; and this approach aligns very well with how our school has always developed and delivered education.
 

Work Culture

By ACS Distance Education on November 16, 2023 in Careers & Jobs Success | comments

A positive workplace culture prioritises the wellbeing of others, showing empathy in both policies and actions. When you better understand work culture, you have a foundation for managing the motivation of staff, and influencing outcomes in a workplace to achieve better productivity, heightened employee satisfaction, increase staff retention levels and other benefits. 

Workplace culture refers to attitudes that prevail in a business. It refers to how management thinks and acts toward employees, and the attitudes and actions that workers exhibit toward others in the workplace – both fellow workers, management and toward customers.