PERC Final 2026

The winners and finalists of 2026

The Final of the 2026 PERC competition took place in Oxford on 24th March. We were delighted to welcome 4 superb teams for a challenging day of debates, talks and philosophy. The  teams competed through three tough debates to settle the top places for 2026. All the teams were well prepared, and so engaged with practical ethics, and we would like to congratulate them all for their hard work - as well as thank the schools and teachers who supported them.

The 2026 top spot was claimed by The Royal Latin School. Second place went to Westminster School, third to Highgate School and fourth to Varndean Sixth Form College. We hope all four teams are very proud of themselves, we are certainly proud of them!

All these videos can be found below, and on our Practical Ethics YouTube Channel.

Finalists videos

 

Royal Latin School

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qqt6L5sfGXM?si=YyakHcbdX-y-ucoC

Do governments have a moral responsibility to intervene abroad when human rights violations are occuring?

Westminster School

Do we have free will?

 

Highgate School

Would we have moral responsibility towards a conscious AI and how would we know?

Varndean College

Should adolescents be allowed to make autonomous decisions about long term psychiatric conditions?​​