Registration for The 2025 Ethics Cup is open.
The registration process is as follows. First, determine what region your school is in by consulting the regional map. Then go the appropriate regional webpage under the drop-down “Tournament Venues” menu, whether to get more information about your regional competition or to skip straight to registering your team for it.
After completing the team registration you’ll see a thank-you message explaining what happens next. Your team doesn’t have a spot in the tournament until you have paid the fee.
The registration fee hasn’t yet been set. Paying the fee guarantees your team at least two matches in its regional tournament. Teams that advance to the finals aren’t charged a further registration fee. In addition, there are need-based travel bursaries available to support travel to regional tournaments and, for those teams that advance to the finals, travel to St. Andrews.
It is important to us that the Cup be an opportunity for dialogue between students from a diverse array of backgrounds. To that end, state schools that serve less wealthy communities are given a discount on the fee, which as mentioned above is to be determined. (For reference, the full fee for the last several years has been £70, and the discounted fee £20.) A school serves a “less wealthy community”, for the purposes of this discount, if it falls between the 50th and 99th percentile of schools in the percentage of its students that
- qualify for a free school meal (Scotland, Wales)
- quality for the pupil premium (England)
To find out whether your school qualifies for the discount, click on the link below for the nation in which your school is located; all qualifying schools are listed: