Charging for entries

This year we will be charging £100 per entry for the first five entries from a single institution, at which point a cap will be applied, so whether your institution submits five or 25 entries, the total charge will not exceed £500.

This pricing model is designed to be fair to all entrants, and we hope that it will continue to produce the institutionally diverse shortlists we are proud to publish every year – and which are crucial if these awards are to continue representing UK and Irish higher education as a whole.

The THE Awards is a flagship event for us, and while it brings together an incredible range of people from our sector, hosting the dinner and ceremony is costly, and we have rarely done more than recoup the cost of running the event. While we have avoided charging in the past, rising prices have made it necessary to introduce this modest fee to maintain our high standards and preserve the awards’ reputation as the “Oscars of higher education”.

Needless to say, the ethos behind our awards remains the same – 20 years and many thousands of entries have only strengthened our belief that groundbreaking, inspirational ideas can originate in institutions of all shapes and sizes, across the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland; we want to continue to unearth your brilliant stories and showcase the very best for as wide an audience as possible.

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In practical terms, if your institution does not currently coordinate entries through a central team, your own awards process might now require some additional oversight.

For our entry system to recognise that submissions are from a single institution, and therefore apply the price cap where necessary, your entries should be submitted via a single THE Awards account. If you do not usually submit all your entries via a nominated individual’s account, we recommend that you set up a new account with a dedicated email address, and then give access only to the people who are coordinating, writing, editing and submitting your institution’s entries. This way, all important messaging relating to your entries should not get lost in a flood of unrelated correspondence, as it might do if you were to use, for example, a generic marketing department email address.

Rationalising your submissions process can keep your costs to a minimum and help you to coordinate and support entries.