About the prize

From crime and carelessness, to corruption and cluelessness – politicians are often in the news for the wrong reasons. This competition gives students the opportunity to have their say about politicians and their standards of behaviour.

How do I get my students involved?

Teach the lessons

Download the Special Edition from our resource library and run the easy-set-up lessons with your students to help them make informed opinions.
Students create

In Lessons 5 & 6, students will create a piece of work to share their final opinions about the question: what’s the best way to maintain politicians’ standards of behaviour?
Enter the competition

Enter your students’ work into the Politics Prize 2023 by November 20th 2023 for a chance to win! See entry requirements below for more details.

What will Prize winners get?

The students' work will be judged by an expert journalist from The Economist.

Winners will get their work published on our website, alongside personalised feedback – and they’ll be sent a goodie bag, perfect for budding reporters.

Entry requirements

To enter the competition, teachers must email their students’ work to [email protected] with their students' first names, ages, school name and country
Teachers can send multiple entries in one email or multiple emails, but only one entry per student will be accepted.
Only entries sent from a registered Topical Talk account-holder email will be considered
Students must be between 9 to 16-years-old
The students' work must be a product of the Special Edition lessons
Entries must be submitted by November 20th 2023

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From crime and carelessness, to corruption and cluelessness – politicians are often in the news for the wrong reasons. This competition gives students the opportunity to have their say about politicians and their standards of behaviour.

How do I get my students involved?

Teach the lessons

Students create

Enter the competition

What will Prize winners get?

Entry requirements

Good luck!