If you're aged 16-19 and currently enrolled in secondary school, we'd love to hear about your experience with post-COVID education and learn your ideas for the way forward. In partnership with the free FT Schools programme, offering access to FT.com to students aged 16-19, their teachers and schools around the world. Read more past submissions here.

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

We invite you to take part in the fifth annual global blog writing competition, co-sponsored by the World Bank Group and the Financial Times.
Submissions must include:

• A strong blog or essay, no longer than 500 words.
• Your name, age, school, e-mail address and the country you live in.
• Photos, videos, visualisations that help support your story are optional.

WORTH

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

ELIGIBILITY

• Entries must be original content and must not have been previously published or lifted from other sources. By submitting an entry, entrants grant The World Bank and The Financial Times Limited ("FT") a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to copy, edit, publish and use the entry, in whole or in part, and in any manner, including for publication on the World Bank's blog platform and, at the FT's sole discretion, on ft.com, without compensation to the entrant. Copy editing rights where deemed necessary by the editors are reserved, although entrants are fully credited.
• Entries must be the work of the submitter and cannot be collaborative or written by a proxy.
• Participants must be enrolled in secondary school or a version of secondary school and must be aged 16-19 at the time of submission.
• Applications can be submitted in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
• The winning entries will be published in English.
• There is no fee to take part in the competition.
• Schools with several students taking part in the competition are encouraged to register here: www.ft.com/schoolsarefree

To apply and for more information visit here.