Please email the completed nomination form to info@ako.ac.nz before the closing deadline of 5 pm on 30 June 2025.

• Nominees can be educators in any tertiary education environment in Aotearoa New Zealand who teach or embed literacy and/or numeracy, or who support learners in their literacy/numeracy development. This can include, for example, kaiako, tutors, employers, learning support staff, lecturers, teachers, trainers, facilitators and mentors.
  
  
• Nominators are required to inform the person they want to nominate and seek their consent to be nominated.
  
  
• Nominations can be written in te reo Māori, English or bilingually.
  
  
• The nomination is by text only and should not include images or videos.
  
  
• Unsuccessful nominees may be re-nominated in subsequent years.
  
  
• A nominee can be nominated by more than one nominator.
  
  

• You can nominate a person for both awards, but you would need to complete two separate nomination forms, one for each award. 

• You can contact Ako Aotearoa for guidance and support of a nomination.
  
  
• Ako Aotearoa may publish extracts from the nominations.
  
  
• Nominators and nominees may be contacted by Ako Aotearoa for further information and for publicity purposes.
  
  
• The decision of the selection panel is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.