Extracurricular activities: Extracurricular activities are those performed by students that fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education. Such activities may form an important part of integrating students into university life and offer opportunities for developing key life and social skills. Examples may include: sports, drama, languages, politics, debating, journalism, music, among many others.

Faculty: Faculty as a term can be used to refer to an organisational division in a university (e.g. Faculty of Medicine) or the academic staff. In the context of this application faculty refers to academic staff.

Local community projects: Local community projects are those that exist in the local area which provide support and services for local groups. Students may become involved on a voluntary basis, as part of their studies or as employees. Such projects may or may not relate to their professional studies.

Mentor role: A mentor is usually a person with greater experience in the same field than the mentee, who can offer advice, information and critically, support in times of need. Peer mentoring involves a relationship between people at the same stage of experience in a mutually supportive relationship.

Peer teaching: Peer teaching involves students taking an active role in presenting and discussing content and issues and learning from each other in ways that supplement the teaching of academic staff. Examples may include a student taking responsibility, perhaps within a small group, to investigate one aspect of a topic and give a short summary to the group, leading or facilitating discussions.

Self-assessment: Self-assessment is the process of evaluating one’s own achievements, strengths, weaknesses, development, performance and competencies against a pre-defined set of standards.