AHEGS Advantage activity nominations
Recognising co-curricular activities that develop students' capabilities through AHEGS Advantage gives them a competitive career edge upon graduation.
What is AHEGS Advantage?
Recognising co-curricular activities through AHEGS Advantage helps students showcase the skills, experience and capabilities they develop outside their studies.
By nominating eligible activities for AHEGS Advantage recognition, you can enhance the profile of your offering and provide participants with formal recognition on their Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement (AHEGS), helping graduates stand out to future employers.
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Who can nominate?
UNSW staff
Any UNSW Faculty, School or Division offering a co-curricular or professional development program is eligible to nominate an activity and its positions.
Constituent clubs
Constituent Clubs (affiliated with a faculty) are entitled to nominate contributing members, volunteer opportunities or professional development programs. A faculty staff member must be appointed activity administrator to support the nomination, ensure it meets eligibility criteria, maintain contact with students involved and verify their hours and participation.
Who is eligible?
To ensure AHEGS Advantage recognises quality co-curricular experiences, all activities are assessed through a nomination process against the eligibility criteria outlined below.
- Be a university-run co-curricular or professional development activity for currently enrolled students.
- Involve practical activities that contribute to the university or wider community
- Provide an opportunity for students to develop at least one of the skills identified in the UNSW Skills Passport.
- Require a minimum total commitment of 20 hours, including mandatory training.
- Include an effective recruitment and selection process, supported by mandatory training that prepares participants for the activity
- Be coordinated, supervised or monitored by a university staff member who can verify the hours undertaken and update the online system.
Note: Co-curricular activities with paid engagements are not eligible for AHEGS recognition.
Completing a nomination
The nomination form requires the following for an activity to be approved:
Details roles, supervision and expected outcome.
View sample training plan
A schedule for meeting the minimum 20-hour commitment.
View sample activity schedule
To be completed via SALUS. Contact faculty/division H&S Coordinator for assistance.
View sample risk management form
- Nominate an activity administrator to coordinate the activity. They are responsible for ensuring students meet the minimum 20-hour participation requirement, complete all activity requirements and are validated using their zID in the Co-Curricular Online Service & Statement (CCOS) system before graduation.
- Obtain senior approval to endorse the activity and support its nomination.
- Select the UNSW Skills Passport skills that students can develop through participation.
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- Critical thinking: Engage knowledge critically by analysing, interpreting and evaluating information, observations, claims and evidence across a range of sources and perspectives.
- Communication: Express, exchange and interpret ideas and information across different modes, adapting communication for diverse audiences, cultures, contexts and media.
- Creativity: Generate and refine ideas by reworking, reinterpreting and recombining existing knowledge, traditions and practices to develop new approaches, solutions and expressions.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with others toward shared outcomes by contributing, cooperating, leading and supporting, while engaging across diverse identities, perspectives and knowledge systems with awareness, responsibility and respect.
- Problem solving: Address complex challenges by identifying, defining and framing problems, and generating, evaluating, implementing and iterating possible solutions.
- Digital literacy: Use digital technologies thoughtfully and responsibly by evaluating digital information and systems, selecting appropriate tools, and making informed ethical decisions about how and when to use them.
- Organisational: Make progress towards objectives by setting goals, planning, prioritising, sequencing and monitoring tasks, coordinating resources, and adapting to changing circumstances.
- Self-regulation: Develop awareness of one’s own cognitive, emotional and behavioural patterns, and identify and adapt strategies to support wellbeing, learning and growth across contexts.
- Technical: Work practically with physical and digital tools and systems by setting them up, operating and maintaining them, and managing the materials or outputs they produce.
Additional skill for AHEGS Advantage:
- Leadership: Support and motivate individuals or groups towards shared goals by taking initiative, making informed decisions, providing direction, and encouraging effective contribution from others.
- Identify the positions available within the activity and provide a position description for each role.
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- Activity Coordinator
- Arc Delegate
- Chairperson
- Coordinator
- Design Officer
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer
- Events Officer
- Executive Member
- Grievance Officer
- Higher Duties Volunteer
- Indigenous Officer
- International Officer
- Marketing Officer
- Media Officer
- Mentee
- Mentor
- Participant
- Peer Support
- President
- Program Lead
- Program Officer
- Secretary
- Sponsorship Officer
- Sports Officer
- Student Representative
- Subcommittee Member
- Team Lead
- Treasurer
- Vice-President
- Volunteer
- Year Representative