Education Resources Awards 2024 Entry Form

Q. What are they?

A. The Education Resources Awards highlight the quality and diversity of educational products and resources, excellent educational establishments and the most dedicated members of the teaching profession and supplies industry, all working together to encourage the very best in education.

Now firmly established as the premier annual event to celebrate outstanding success of suppliers and teaching professionals of the UK education sector, these awards are recognised by the teaching profession as the benchmark of excellence, aiming to encourage the raising of educational services and product standards throughout the industry.

Q. Who organises and sponsors them?

A. The awards are organised by Brilliant Marketing Solutions and the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA). We are pleased to acknowledge the support of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), nasen, and the sponsorship of YPO, Staedler, Reading Solutions and Th Education Company.

Q. How do I enter?

A. To enter, you must submit the very best and prove it. A separate form should be completed for each category entered. The same resource may be submitted into more than one category.

All forms must be completed in their entirety. Your written submission should not exceed the specified 1500 word count shown. In addition to this we encourage you to submit one piece of supporting material as a PDF document, not to exceed 6MB in size and 500 words in total, and which can include testimonials, photographs and/or technical descriptions.

Email your Entry form by Monday 5 February 2024 latest. It is essential that you meet this deadline to avoid missing the judging process. Entries received after this date will not be considered. A small entry fee will be required, for details please go to the cost of entry section.

Q. How are they judged?

A. An independent panel of expert judges, most of whom are teaching professionals, will select the winners for each of the Awards.

Q. What advice can you give?

A. Read the criteria! Not every product or service will meet all the criteria, but make life easy for the judges! You know your product or service very well – they don’t.

You must match your entry as closely as possible, against the criteria asked for. Entries that do not match the majority of criteria will not be considered.

Kindly limit the amount of supporting audio visual material to clips no longer than 3 minutes and only one per entry.

If you are entering a service for an award or nominating a company or a person, it is even more vital that you produce clear and relevant explanatory paperwork – with support.

Provide all necessary back-up material: explanations of the purpose of the product or service, how it works, what it aims to do and for whom, including testimonials from schools and colleges. Please try and obtain up to date testimonials from schools and colleges where possible. Do not just print the pages from your website for the judges to read!

Include all information and resources that the judges will need to give your entry a fair hearing, e.g. passwords to enter websites. Nominations received with inadequate information or resources cannot be considered.

Complete the nomination form in its entirety. Each entry must be made on a separate official entry form.

Please note: The judges’ decision is final. The judges will place an entry in a more appropriate category if they think it is applicable. The organisers reserve the right to change deadline dates and categories as appropriate.