Submission of entries is invited for the World Bank & Financial Times Youth Blog Competition 2023.

About the Competition

If you’re aged 16 to 19 and currently enrolled in high school, the World Bank & Financial Times would like to hear about your experience with post-COVID education and learn your ideas for the way forward.

Please tell them:

How is your country’s education system recovering from learning losses of the Covid-19 pandemic, and what more can it do to prepare young people for the jobs of the future?

Eligibility Criteria

  • Entries should be original content and cannot have been previously published or lifted from other sources.
  • Entries should be the work of the submitter and cannot be collaborative or written by a proxy.
  • Participants must be enrolled in high school or a version of secondary education and should be between the ages of 16-19 years at the time of submission.
  • Entries can be submitted in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
  • The winning entries will be published in English.
  • There is no fee payable to enter the competition.

Prizes

The winning entry will be published in the Financial Times (at its sole discretion) and the World Bank blog. The World Bank will also find additional, virtual ways to honor the winner during 2023.

How to Submit?

Interested participants can submit their entries here.

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Submissions should include:

  • A strong blog or essay, that is no longer than 500 words.
  • Your name, age, school, email, and country you live in.
  • Photos, videos, and visualizations that help support your story are optional.

Submission Deadline

March 31, 2023.

Click here to view the official notification of the World Bank & Financial Times Youth Blog Competition 2023.