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England wins World Schools Debating Championships 2016
[caption id="attachment_29548" align="alignright" width="400"] Team England wins the WSDC 2016 - © Dominique Brewing[/caption]
The English high school students Rosa Thomas, Archie Hall and Kenza Wilks won the grand final of the WSDC 2016 in Stuttgart as proposition on the motion „This house believes that states should be allowed to pay other states to relocate and settle refugees.“ The English team debated against the opposing Canadian team represented by Dasha Metropolitansky, Rory Flynn and Alex Wu. In the WSD format, teams consist of five students, three of which speak per debate. Therefore, Edward Bracey and Ife Grillo of Team England also ...
Debaters at the WSDC – Part 2
On the 19th-29th Juli the World Schools Debating Championships take place in and around Stuttgart, Germany (an article about the WSDC 2016 can be found here). The Achte Minute was visiting the event and we’ve interviewed some of the participating debaters from all around the world. Because of the large number of interviews the first part of this Mittwochs-Feature was already published yesterday.
In this part you can find the interviews with:
Naz Gocek, Branksome Hall - Canada
Barbara Krumpholz, Europäisches Gymnasium Bertha-von-Suttner - Germany
Thomas Murphy, Dubai College - United Arabic Emirates
Abhaya Gauchan, Ratobangala School - Nepal
Naz Gocek, Branksome Hall - Canada
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Jul 27th, 2016 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: International, Menschen, Mittwochs-Feature, Turniere |
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Debaters at the WSDC – Part 1
On the 19th-29th Juli the World Schools Debating Championships take place in and around Stuttgart, Germany (an article about the WSDC 2016 can be found here). The Achte Minute was visiting the event and has interviewed some of the participating debaters from all around the world. Because of the large number of interviews, the first part of this Mittwochs-Feature is already published today. The second part will be published regularly at 10am on Wednesday.
In this part you can find the interviews with:
Kenza Wilks, Dulwich College - England
Alejo Gonzalez Virgili, Belgrano Day School - Argentina
Jay Tanatswa Muzhingi, Kutama College - Zimbabwe
Kenza ...
Jul 26th, 2016 |
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Category: International, Menschen, Mittwochs-Feature, Turniere |
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This month: World Schools Debating Championships in Stuttgart
In addition to debating at universities, competition has spread at schools all over the globe in recent decades. For example, participating countries annually send a delegation of pupils aged 14 to 19 to the World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC), which are comparable to the World Universities Debating Championships. Laura Alviz of the Debating Society Germany e.V. explains what exactly that means. WSDC takes place in Stuttgart next week.
After the German team had to cover long distances in 2014 and 2015 to reach the Southeast Asian cities Bangkok and Singapore, traveling becomes easier this year. WSDC takes place in seven days ...
Jul 13th, 2016 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: International, Mittwochs-Feature, Turniere |
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