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After a fiery round of debating, St. James' School was crowned National Champions for the second year running. The Heritage School was second runner up. The Best Speaker award went to Souti Mukhopadhyay, who is the only person to have won best speaker twice consecutively in the national finals of debate's long and prestigious history.
The English-Speaking Union Schools' Mace is an annual debating tournament for secondary schools in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The competition was founded in 1957 by the journalist Kenneth Harris of The Observer newspaper, [ 1 ] and was initially known as The Observer Schools' Mace .
It is awarded to the speaker who makes the best contribution to the evening's debate. The Society of Cogers (/ ˈ k oʊ dʒ ər z /) is a free speech society, established in 1755 in the City of London. It is the oldest debating society in the world and one of the oldest speaking gatherings of any kind.
The competition was founded in 1954 by the journalist Kenneth Harris of The Observer newspaper, [1] and was sponsored by the newspaper until 1995. It was then renamed the John Smith Memorial Mace in honour of British Labour Party leader John Smith, who won the tournament as a member of the Glasgow University team in 1962, and died in 1994.
Questions and topics for debate, as well as the outcomes of the debates, were advertised in the many London newspapers that flourished during the time, again linking the debating societies with the public sphere. Andrew emphasises the year 1780 as pivotal in the history of the debating societies. The Morning Chronicle announced on 27 March: [32]
The William Pitt Debating Union (WPDU) is the debating society of the University of Pittsburgh. Falling under the auspices of the Department of Communication, the WPDU is a co-curricular program and hub for a wide range of debating activities, including intercollegiate policy debate, public debate, and debate outreach.
World Schools Style debate (or WSS) is a debate format combining the British Parliamentary and Australia-Asian debating formats. Designed in 1988 to meet the needs of the World Schools Debating Championships tournament, it has become popular internationally as one of the main English high school debate formats. As an international format, the ...
The Oxford Union debating chamber. The King and Country Debate was a debate on 9 February 1933 at the Oxford Union Society. The motion presented, "That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country", passed with 275 votes for the motion and 153 against it. [1] The motion would later be named the Oxford Oath or the Oxford ...