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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s the era of intellectual tribalism, echo chambers and opinions driven by the Pavlovian response to social media “likes”. So how do you nurture independent thinking in the young minds of the ...

It is fair to say that my days of cut-and-thrust debating are behind me. Back in secondary school, I was part of my school’s English debating team and took part in debating tournaments, such as the ...

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.

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 ...