The winning design will be included in a high profile national campaign to an audience of more than 250,000 students in higher and further education across the UK, and gives you the chance to help students comment directly on their experience on their academic courses and help change them for the better.
Design and win
The winning entrant’s poster will be included in the NSS promotional campaign and may be incorporated into the design of various other NSS marketing materials such as screensavers, banners and flyers. In addition, the winner will also receive £150 of book vouchers – enough to help fund your books for a year!
Have your say
Students will also get the chance to decide which poster you would like to see included in the campaign, and can login to this website and vote on the shortlisted entries for the competition in October 2009.
Last year's winner, Barbara Ward, had only been a student at the London College of Communication for six weeks when her "Be heard" poster (above) was selected to front the NSS 2009 marketing campaign.
How to enter
Firstly, read our design brief. Once you’ve created your poster(s) , send your completed design(s) in PDF format with your name, email address, current course, institution and level of study to nsscompetition@nus.org.uk
You must submit your entry by midnight on 1 October 2009 at midnight.
Good luck.
Rules of entry
- This competition is open to all current students studying a course at a UK university or college
- Closing date for entries: Midnight, 30 September 2009
- You may submit up to three different designs
- The existing NSS logo and your own NSS strapline must be included in your poster
- You must be a current student on a course at a higher education institution/university or further education college to enter
- Entries will be judged by a panel of representatives from NUS, HEFCE, HEFCW and IPSOS Mori, and shortlisted entries judged by students online by vote at www.nus.org.uk in October 2009.
- The winning entrant will be notified by 20 October 2009
- All entries must be submitted by email in PDF format to nsscompetition@nus.org.uk
- If you have any queries, contact us at nsscompetition@nus.org.uk