Every time I get a message from a junior or a peer asking me for help on how to join debating, the most I can do in my limited capacity is suggest they join their school's debating club. Since that, ...

As we sat down with Sourodip Paul and Sajid Asbat Khandaker – team BRAC A, winners of this year's World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC 2022) – at The Daily Star, we realised the gravity of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Back in 1992, my school friend Daniel Saxby and I stood in London in front of an audience of worthies and a panel of ...

Communication skills are vital for all young people, both to succeed in their education and in later life. The annual Education and Skills Survey (CBI and EDI) this year showed that 42% of employers ...

Picture this: you’re a student at a Chinese Medium Instruction (CMI) school. You like the challenges of learning and using English. You’ve been reading articles about debating in Young Post, and ...

On a summer afternoon in a classroom in west London, eight individuals fiercely compete in a public debate on: “This house would legalise vigilantism in areas of high crime”. A speaker for the motion ...

Philippine debating remains a locus of liberal rhetoric. Except its focus is no longer America, but Asia. There has always been something oratorical about Filipino liberalism. Most of the key liberals ...

After debuting at the World Schools Debating Championships in 2008, the ISDS-trained Indian team did not make it to the knockouts stages for the first two years. Then, in 2010, something changed.

WHEN THE Chinese government first sent students to America in the late 19th century, it could not decide whether their goal should be to acquire specific technical knowledge or to absorb new ways of ...