How the awards are judged

The Education Resources Awards (ERA) are independently judged by a panel of expert judges, comprising teaching professionals renowned for their experience and knowledge of products and resources within the education sector. 

Each entry will be independently and impartially judged on its own merits, with complete confidentiality to select the winners for each of the individual award categories. The judges will place an entry in a more appropriate category if they think it is applicable.

Closing date for entry 2027: Friday, 26th February 2027

Please read this guidance carefully and let us know as soon as possible if you have any questions.

The Judging Process        

Working individually, judges will be asked to review your entry submission(s) and score it against the judging criteria. To do this they will use your entry form, your website, social media and any supporting material you have submitted.

Please ensure when you submit your entry, that you have clearly provided answers to the requested category criteria within your written submission text, so that our judges will easily be able to locate this information.

Since judges will not have access to a physical copy of your product, could you please also supply the following to assist them:

Login details and instructions for any online products ensuring they work from 5th-12th March.

A video demonstration for any physical product would be very helpful for our judges – but is not compulsory, if you would like to submit, please submit as a link to an externally hosted platform such as YouTube or Vimeo, or to a website where the video is hosted. Please do not send large video files.

Once all presentations have been viewed, the judges will then deliberate together and make their final decisions for each category.

Judges will absent themselves from any discussions where they have a vested interest.

Our winners will be unveiled at our gala awards ceremony on 22nd April 2027 at the National Conference Centre. Birmingham. For more information or help please email Chris Milton or Karin Allfree or call on 01622 474 011

Please note: The judges’ decision is final, and the organisers reserve the right to change deadline dates and categories as appropriate.