Global Schools Prize 2027 ($500,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: December 16, 2026

Applications are open for the Global Schools Prize 2027. The Varkey Foundation (VF) is launching a US$1million Global Schools Prize to recognise and have a good time distinctive faculties from around the globe – establishments which might be reimagining what’s doable in schooling.

The Global Schools Prize will determine ten excellent class winners, from a longlist, who will every be awarded $50,000. One extraordinary college will obtain the Global Schools Prize of $500,000. The Prize cash can solely be used for functions or actions that additional the charitable objects of VF and can be topic to additional phrases and circumstances of grant issued by VF.

Categories

• AI Transformation: Acknowledges faculties which have successfully and inclusively built-in AI into instructing and studying, bettering studying outcomes and instructing college students the best way to use the know-how responsibly.
• Arts, Culture and Creativity: Celebrates faculties that nurture inventive expression by way of the humanities and combine cultural heritage into the academic expertise.
• Character and Values-driven Education: Recognises faculties that instil values corresponding to empathy, integrity, service, and respect, making ready college students to be moral, compassionate world residents. This will embrace faculties that foster pupil management and governance.
• Global Citizenship and Peacebuilding: Honours faculties that foster intercultural understanding, peace schooling, and world consciousness to assist construct a extra tolerant, inclusive world. It will recognise faculties that promote important considering, collaboration, and flexibility.
• Health and Wellbeing: Highlights faculties that prioritise college students’ and employees’s well being by way of help providers, emotional schooling, and a nurturing atmosphere, together with each bodily and psychological well being.
• Overcoming Adversity: Honours faculties which have succeeded regardless of important boundaries, corresponding to battle, refugee integration, poverty, pure disasters, or restricted sources.
• SEND/Inclusive Education: Recognises faculties which have made distinctive achievements in offering entry to top quality schooling for youngsters with particular academic wants.
• STEM Education: Recognises faculties which have made distinctive achievements within the sciences, economics and arithmetic, together with constructing transversal/“21st Century Skills”.
• Sustainability: Recognises faculties which might be champions of environmental schooling, local weather motion, and sustainability practices each inside and outdoors the classroom.
• Teacher Development: Celebrates faculties that make investments deeply within the skilled development, coaching, and wellbeing of their lecturers, recognising them as central to schooling transformation.

Prize

The prize supplies each direct awards and extra recognition and improvement alternatives:

• Ten excellent class winners can be recognized from a longlist, and every will obtain US$50,000.
• From the class winners, one total college will obtain the Global Schools Prize and US$500,000 to scale its impression.
• Longlisted faculties will obtain:
  • a Global Schools Prize Badge symbolizing world-class impression and achievement throughout areas starting from AI transformation to instructor improvement (as said within the supply), and
  • entry to the Global Schools Network, together with partnerships, skilled improvement, and world collaboration alternatives with different main establishments.

Eligibility

• Open to all sorts of faculties in each nation on the earth, topic to any restrictions beneath the legal guidelines of England and Wales on VF sending funds to the nation by which the college relies. A “school” beneath these Terms and Conditions means an academic establishment that college students of obligatory college age (or between the ages of 4 – 18) are required to attend beneath native legal guidelines. This shouldn’t be meant to incorporate for instance pre-faculties or nurseries, or additional or larger schooling establishments corresponding to larger schooling schools or universities.
• A college is eligible no matter whether or not it’s a state/native authority maintained college, or a price-paying college (generally referred to as a non-public or impartial college), and no matter whether or not there’s an admissions standards for college students, or a specialist focus corresponding to a religion college or a particular college.
• The Applicant should not be prohibited from taking part within the Contest or receiving the Prize beneath the relevant regulation of their nation.
• The Applicant should not beneath its native legal guidelines be bancrupt, bankrupt, positioned into receivership, administration or liquidation, have a petition offered for its winding up, have entered into any association or composition for the good thing about its collectors, or be unable to pay its money owed as they fall due.
• The Applicant, together with any related particular person of an Applicant as outlined beneath, should not have carried out itself (by act or omission) in such a means as to carry the academic occupation, VF, its associates, any GEMS Education group firm, or their respective administrators, officers, staff, brokers, and subsidiaries (“VF Parties”) into disrepute or to have been adversely prejudicial to the pursuits of any of them (as could also be decided on the sole discretion of VF). This consists of (with out limitation) a faculty being positioned beneath particular measures (or the equal beneath native legal guidelines), being beneath investigation by a regulator in its jurisdiction, or materials safeguarding associated investigations or incidents involving the Applicant or a related particular person of an Applicant (corresponding to a faculty instructor being in publish regardless of being disqualified or barred from working with youngsters).

Application

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For extra info, go to Global Schools Prize.