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50,000 students participate annually around the globe.

Team of 24 examiners.

Top winners in the past 20 years have been from Australia, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Canada, India, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, Trinidad, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

The 2006 Competition drew over 6000 entries from 1350 schools across the Commonwealth.

Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore.He won a prize in the Commonwealth Essay Competition in 1970 aged 18.

A polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government advisor. Having written morethan 30 books.

Two famous winners of the CEC:

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THE COMPETITION

It is the world's oldest global writing prize for young people, established in 1883.

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Since 1922 winning and highly commended entries have been archived at Cambridge University Library

In 2010, for the first time in 25 years, the top prize was awardedto a UK entrant Lars Gladhaug.

The essays written in the 1920s reflect a broad imperial theme.Topics such as “Has the expansion of the British Empire been due to colonisation as distinct from conquest?” Almost a century later this perspective is constituted by the writers‛ life, values and society.

The top winner of 2011 Commonwealth Essay Competition is Deep Vaze, from India.

Elspeth Huxley CBE Lee Hsien Loong

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