Debate Mate: Job Opportunities‏

Debate Mate is looking for people to fill the following positions:

Programme Directors
Trainee Operations Manager

Debate Mate is a charity that uses debating to deliver key skills to young people in areas of high child poverty.  Focusing on developing communication, interpersonal and higher order thinking skills, and building confidence and self-esteem, Debate Mate uses university student debaters to deliver a range of innovative, cutting-edge educational programmes.

Debate Mate works with young people of ALL abilities, providing opportunities to children in some of the UK’s most challenging schools.

Based in the London Bridge area, but with programmes in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Bristol, and operating in USA, Nepal and the UAE, Debate Mate is a rapidly expanding organisation.  2500 young people take part in Debate Mate clubs each week, 300 university students currently mentor on Debate Mate programmes, and Debate Mate runs some of the biggest debating competitions in the UK.  Debate Mate is supported by News International, Deutche Bank, Credit Suisse, BSkyB, JP Morgan, Clifford Chance, major hedge and investment funds, and others.

All posts will be starting in September.  Salaries: Competitive.  Job descriptions and what we are looking for in successful candidates can be found at www.debatemate.com/jobs.

To apply please send a CV and cover letter to jess@debatemate.com. The deadline for applications is the 15:00 on the 30th March. 

Interviews will be taking place in May.  

For more detailed job descriptions visit www.debatemate.com/jobs

Thanks,

Debate Mate

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Kent IV 2012

Dear Debaters,

This year the University of Kent will be hosting our first IV on Saturday March 31st on our Canterbury campus.

BP style debating with four rounds, a semi and a final!

Open to all standards of debaters!

A fab social after the final!

Definitely some free food!

Cheap registration fee! Only £20 if paid in advance or £25 on the day!  Details of advance payment will be sent soon!

 

CA Team to be announced...

and

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE1LRzJsVDRlVk9UT09NNC1vZEIydEE6MQ

Register here ^ - if you have any issues, all you need to do is get in touch!

 

Our building fully caters to those with additional needs so just drop me an e-mail if you have any and your debating rooms will be assigned accordingly :)

contact:
debates@kentdebating.co.uk
if you have any questions!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/177765048997411/
www.kentdebating.co.uk
www.twitter.com/kentdebating

--
Monifa Walters-Thompson
Debate Convenor
Kent Debating Society

"Kent's Best New Society 2010"
www.kentdebating.co.uk

Invitation to Inner Temple IV‏

Greetings debaters!

The Inner Temple IV, 'probably' the best dressed IV on the circuit, will be held on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th February 2012.

 

The competition is being made possible this year by the generous sponsorship of Blackstone Chambers. Our CA this year will be Alex Deane – former world champion.

We will be running five rounds of 5 minute speeches before breaking to semi-finals, resulting in a public final. All break rounds will consist of 7 minute speeches.

We’ll also be offering a candlelit, sit down dinner before the final (romantic?), and an uber central London social afterwards.

Registration is now open and all this is available for £65. To register please contact the Convenor: Peter Elms at inner2007@hotmail.co.uk or via our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Inner-Temple-IV-2012/351248574889169

 

Payment can be made before, or on the day - details to follow upon reg.

We are also 'debating' whether to break all teams on 10 points...WUDC style...

 

Hopefully see you there.

Peter

Convener

@InnerTDebating  

Inner Temple Debating Society

Invitation to the LSE Open 2012

The LSE Open is the largest and most prestigious open debate tournament in the UK. Registration is now open, so be sure to register early to guarantee yourself a spot before we fill our team cap!

This year, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch LSE Open will be taking place on the 18th and 19th of February 2012.

Registration Details:

•  Please register on our website starting January 1st 2012. Click here to register.

•  The registration fee will be £50 for IONA teams, and £40 for international teams.

•  The team cap is set at 100 (there will be no institutional cap). The N-1 judges rule applies.

This year, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch LSE Open will be bigger and better than ever:

•  5 Preliminary Rounds of Closed Motions, 7 minute speeches. Open break to Quarter-Finals, ESL break to Semi-Finals.

•  Our distinguished CA team will include:

           Chief Adjudicator Shengwu Li (WUDC Finalist, EUDC & Cambridge IV Winner)

           Chief Adjudicator Ruth Faller (EUDC Semi-Finalist, EUDC CA 2011, Durham IV & Galway IV Winner)

           Deputy Chief Adjudicator Koen van Schie (Oxford IV ESL Winner, EUDC ESL Semifinalist & Cambridge IV ESL Finalist)

• We will be having amazing socials on Friday (for early arrivals), Saturday and Sunday nights! 

For more information, please contact our Organising Committee at lsedebate@gmail.com
We  look forward to seeing you come February!

Best wishes,
John Lee

Convenor  | Bank of America Merrill Lynch LSE Open 2012 
LSE SU Debate Society |  London School of Economics & Political Science 

Oxford win 2011 English Mace

Oxford JH (Carin Hunt and Will Jones) have won the 2011 English Mace and will now represent England in the 2012 International Mace.  Best speaker on the tab was Jack Watson from BPP A.

The Team and Speaker tabs can be found at Team and Speaker tabs: http://t.co/x7D4Fual  and http://t.co/9peOwtmG

Motions:
Round 1: THW allow gifted students to skip years in primary and secondary school
Round 2: THB that all countries should abandon the fight against climate change and should just seek to adapt to its consequences
Round 3: (Pre-released motion) THB that all US primary elections should be held on the same day
Round 4: THB the EU should centrally govern all vital aspects of the economies of heavily indebted eurozone nations
Round 5: THBT single parents in prison should be provided with special treatment to allow them to raise their young children from behind bars
Semi-Final: THB that Pakistan should cease all assistance to the United States in the fight against the Taliban
Grand Final: THW criminalise all forms of racist speech and behaviour, even where it falls short of directly inciting racial hatred or violence

Source: Britishdebate mailing list

BPP Win the 2011 Cambridge IV

Dear All,

We want to thank all the teams and judges that came to The Clifford Chance Cambridge IV 2011 and hope they all enjoyed the competition.

The Open Final was won by BPP A, Jack Watson and Doog Cochran. They defeated Oxford BC (Steph Bell and Jen Coyne), Oxford BW (Ben Woolgar and Hugh Burns) and Loyola (James Kilcup and Dearbhail O’Crowley) in the final. Jack Watson topped the speaker tab.

Utrecht (Danique van Koppenhagen and Tomas Beerthuis) won the ESL final, with Danique topping the speaker tab.

The full tab is available here: http://tinyurl.com/thecccambridgeivresults 

The motions were:
R1: THW allow family members to forcibly commit proven alcoholics and drug addicts to rehabilitation clinics.
R2: THBT all research organizations should institute codes of conduct that forbid the creation of Strong AI.
R3: THW provide financial assistance to inner city neighborhoods to prevent gentrification
R4: THBT China should make extracting a full apology for Japan's War Crimes a top strategic priority
R5: THBT feminists should not campaign against polygamy in poor countries.

Open QF: THBT the use of conscripted soldiers should be a war crime.
ESL SF: THW take the children of the Amish into care

Open SF: TH regrets the rise of a distinct African American Culture
ESL Final: THB that it is morally legitimate for Occupy Movement to use violence to undermine capitalist institutions
Open Final: THW break up Google's Search Monopoly

A special thanks goes to Shengwu Li and Nathalie Smith for being two of most creative and sensible people to work with on an adjudication team. Thanks to Jack Gamble and Rebecca Meredith for their hard work as Deputy Convenors. And to James Hardy and Maria English for the countless hours they put in to make the competition run.

We hope to see you all around soon,
Harish Natarajan
Co-CA The Clifford Chance Cambridge IV 2011

Sydney Win Oxford IV 2011

Sydney A (Daniel Swain & Elle Jones) have won the 2011 Oxford IV.  In the final they defeated Durham A UCD A and Cambridge D

The best speaker at the tournament was Pam Cohen from Durham A.

Leiden A (Rogier Baart & Ali Al Khatab) won the English as a Second Language competition  defeating Utrecht A BBU A and Belgrade A in the ESL final.  Danique Van Koppenhagen (Utrecht A) was the top ESL speaker on the tab.

The Team and Speaker Tab can be found here

Motions:

Final: This House Would establish geographical zones where the selling and consuming of any and all drugs are legal
Semi Final: This House would Establish Brothels on Military Bases.
Qtr Final: This House Believes That International Law should allow states which accept refugees to sue the states they come from for compensation.
Rd1: This House Believes That Sex Education Classes in Schools Should Teach Techniques For Pure Sexual Gratification (including, but not limited to, anal sex, oral sex, mutual gratification and masturbation)
Rd2: This House Believes That in developing countries aid organizations should be banned from religious proselytizing.
Rd3: This House Believes That Trade unions and labour protection laws should be suspended during times of economic crisis.
Rd4: This House Believes That Israel Should Materially Support Arab Pro-Democratic Movements.
Rd5: This House Believes That a tax should be placed on successful artists in order to fund new and developing artists(Note: Artists defined by the CA team to be the arts and the entertainment industry).
ESL Final: This House believes That the CEOs of the largest corporations should be chosen by the national democratic elections
ESL Semi Final: This House Believes That the LGBT Movement Should Not Support Pride Marches.

Source various on Twitter.

Cambridge win President’s Cup 2011

The Cambridge team of Ashish Kumar and Freddy Powell have won the 2001 UCL Presidents Cup.  This is the first big event of the year in the UK with over 200 "fresher" teams competing against each other.

If anyone has the tab and more details of the motions, break etc please pass them on.

Invitation to the Durham IV

Hi Folks,

If you want a rigorous set of Worlds prep tournaments, then make sure
to put the Durham IV, November 5-6, 2011  in your itinerary this
autumn. It happens on the weekend right before the Oxbridge IVs which
means you can have two glorious weeks in England and 3 celebrated IVs
to attend in succession, Durham, Oxford and Cambridge, a bang for your
buck, right there.

The Durham IV is one of the biggest IVs on the calendar, (not to mention one of the main locations for the Harry Potter films) 

bringing you both of the Manila WUDC chief adjudicators and returning
finally to our own university buildings. It's the IV with high-powered
debates, the big wins, the crushing losses, the one you tell stories
to your freshers and grand-freshers about for years to come. The
Durham IV.

So, why should you be coming?

Debates
Created as excellent World's preparation and to interest and
entertain, we will have the kind of debates people feud about long
after the round is over (and, as those of you who were at the final
last year will know, a little bit of crazy can sometimes come into
play). We always attract the top speakers on the circuit, but bringing
you both sides of the coin: as one of the early IVs in the year, we
hope you will bring your novices to learn from our judging panels and
from the finals. There will also be our usual novice break, where the
new and upcoming big names in debating will be discovered.

CA team:

Co-CA: flying in from Sweden we have Lucinda David, CA of Manila WUDC
2012, WUDC ESL Semi-Finalist, top break at Australs, Quarterfinalist
at Cambridge IV, best speaker of the Philippines, CA of International
La Salle IV, DCA of National debate championships and IIDC.

Co-CA: Sam Block, CA of Manila WUDC 2012. EUDC, Oxford and Mace
Champion, DCA of EUDC 2009, Grand Final Judge at WUDC 2009, top
speaker at WUDC 2008 and EUDC 2007.

Socials and so on:

In ancient times, debaters at Durham found that the many pubs and bars
in the city just couldn't keep up with their demand for alcohol - the
drink just wouldn't come out of the taps quickly enough; so we bought
a bar ourselves, and called it 24. Rumoured to be built on a native
South African burial ground, 24 is the home of the legendary oversized
buckets of Yakka, at just the right strength and lemony-ness. Even
when you're not relieving us of vast quantities of free alcohol at our
socials, the £1.20 pint prices in Durham will have you swigging away
like a Brooding Fish hurriedly gulping it's young before entering more
dangerous, southern seas...
We also have the advantage that everything is within walking distance
of everywhere, meaning no messing around with taxis between the train
station and the chamber, 24 and accommodation. In addition, Durham has
plenty of great places to stroll around in your free time, you can
have a look around our famed cathedral just outside the Union chamber,
or get turned away from the castle..

Have some details:

-Closed Motions
-High standard competition - so great for World's prep
-7 minute speeches
-5 rounds break to semis & novice break to novice finals

Reg fee:

-UK teams: £40 per team in advance, £50 on the day payable by cheque
to the Durham Union Society
-Non-UK: £35 in advance, £45 on the day
-existing reciprocal commitments honoured
-Please note that unfortunately we must still charge teams who drop
out after 01/11/11
-crash provided for all teams, please specify when you require crash
and for how many people on registering.

Judging rules:

N-1. Funding is available - please message one of the CAs with your CV
to apply for it, or ask us to do so for you.

Schedule:

Friday 4th November
Attendees are welcome at our Friday Night Debate 20.00
Reception drinks [24 North Bailey Club] 20.00

Saturday 5th November
Registration [Elvet Riverside] 8.00-8.30
Opening Remarks 8.30
Round 1 9.00
Round 2 11.00
Lunch 12.45
Round 3 13.45
Round 4 15.45
Round 5 17.45
Fireworks Night Social (with fireworks!!) and Break Announcement [24
NBC/Grey's College] 19.45

Sunday 6th November
Semi Final (Palace Green) 9.30
Novice Final (PG) 11.00
Final (PG) 13.00
Social and Result Announcements [24 NBC] 15.00

Contact one of our co-conveners, Benjamin Dory or George Trigatzis,
with any question by facebook (links under 'creators'),
durhamintervarsity@gmail.com or ( 07794870455)(George)/07773 644663
(Ben).

Please email durhamintervarsity@gmail.com to register, including a
brief and informal CV of any judges you are sending.

http://www.durhamiv.co.uk/

The Durham Inter-Varsity 2011 is sponsored by KPMG, visit us
atwww.kpmg.co.uk/careers

Many thanks,

Durham IV

Orgcom

Cambridge IV 2011 details

The Cambridge Union Society is proud to present one of the highlights of the debating calendar, one of the most celebrated debating tournaments in the world; and the largest Cambridge IV.
It will take place this year on the 18th and 19th of November 2011.

Registration Details:

- Registration will open on our website and on our Facebook group on the 1st September at Midday (GMT).
- £85 Registration Fee; to include a Black Tie social, with further details to be announced.
- Supplementary Package available to all for £25 per team. For £25 we offer entry into the Thursday night Union debate, Debating Workshops run by top Cambridge Debaters, guaranteed crash Thursday night, and tours on Friday morning before the IV begins.
- A 120 team cap, with an initial 4 teams per institution cap. N-1 judges for UK teams.

Highlights of the tournament include:
- 5 Preliminary Rounds of Closed Motions, 7 minute speeches. Open break to Quarter-Finals, ESL break to Semi-Finals.
- A prestigious CA Team, featuring:
CA Fiona Prowse (2011 World Champion, 2010 Cambridge IV Winner, 2009 Australs Champion)
CA Harish Natarajan (2010 Worlds Semi-Finalist, 2010 and 2011 Euros Finalist)
DCA Nathalie Smith (2011 Worlds Octo-finalist, 2010 Euros Quarter-finalist and DCA of the Nottingham Open)
- Expert tabbing from Bob Nimmo
- One of the best judging pool available; to include Art Ward, Andrew Tuffin, Sam Block, Jack Gamble, Joe Roussos, Richard Lau, Tom Hosking, Daniel Warents, Simone Van Elk and many others.
- A Hog Roast Dinner
- A Black Tie Champagne Social
For more information, contact the OrgCom, at iv@cus.org

Maria English (Convenor)
James Hardy (Convenor)
Rebecca Meredith (Deputy Convenor)
Craig Docherty (Deputy Convenor)
See www.cambridgeiv.com for more details

Oxford IV 2011 Registration OPENS THURSDAY!‏

Dear all,

 

First of all, apologies for the delay in opening international registration for this year's Oxford IV. We have been having serious technical issues with our website, which is still not up and running. However, we are now ready to open registration for this year's IV. At 9am BST on Thursday 25th August, registration will open. At that time, we will post a link to registration on the IV Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=141641042591477), which also contains all the information you need about the tournament. IONA Registration will open as intended on September 1st.

 

Please let us know if you have any questions. We are very excited about seeing you all in Oxford in November.

 

Best
--
Mel Pope, Convenor
Morgan Stanley Oxford IV 2011

Looking for details on Oxford IV.

Can someone from the org comm of the Oxford IV contact me at colm_flynn@hotmail.com or if anyone has details on how to register for the IV can you let me know.

Thanks

UKSG Conference 2011

In these tough times, we never like to see anyone miss out on a bargain, so please be aware that this year’s Super Early Bird discount for the UK Speechwriters’ Guild conference on Friday 16 September ends on Sunday.


We have added Charles Crawford, a former British ambassador, to the line-up, who will run a seminar on writing speeches in English for non-native speakers.

Buy your ticket here now: http://uksgconference2011.eventbrite.com/

If you are in need of accommodation there are three single bedrooms at The Whitehall available for the night of Thursday 15 September (& the Friday if required). The price is £46 per person per night for B&B. Tel Sara Uzzell 01202 554682.

Eve of Conference:
We are in negotiations with a branding agency to organise the first UK Business Speaker of the Year competition on Thursday 15 September in the Ocean Room Theatre, Bournemouth. This promises to be an X-Factor-style event, with Max Atkinson, author of Lend Me Your Ears, playing the chief judge role of Simon Cowell.

Those attending the conference the next day will get free entry to the contest.

Contestants will submit a one-minute showreel audition of their performance, which will be put on YouTube. The judges will be looking for ‘an inspirational business message for our times’. If you know of any aspiring professional speakers who would like to take part, please make them aware of the competition. The website will be launched next week.

Brian Jenner
http://www.thespeechwriter.co.uk/
Winner of the Vital Speeches of the Day Cicero Speechwriting Award 2010
Member of the UK Speechwriters’ Guild
http://www.ukspeechwritersguild.co.uk/
01202 551257
07545 232980

Live Debate from the Cambridge Union

Have you ever wanted to attend a debate at the Cambridge Union?  Well now you can avail of the next best thing.  A live stream from their debate tonight. 

The motion: Is classical music still important? You can watch it live on their revamped website http://www.cus.org/ from 7pm.  Hopefully in the coming months there will be many more livestreams from Cambridge and other major debating societies.

Some brief snippets of news

A few interesting but brief updates popped up on my google reader this morning.  Rather than post them separately I'll combine them together into one post.

- According to Cambridge student newspaper The Tab WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will address Cambridge Union Debating Society on Tuesday, March 15.  Should be an interesting debate if you are in the Cambridge area.



Vienna IV winners

 - You may have seen the post with a link to videos from the Vienna IV over the weekend.  You may even have watched some of the debates on line.  Well the overall result was a victory for the Colgate team of Austin Schwartz and Travis Steele.  In the final they beat Galatasaray (Engin Arikan & Denizhan Kilic) Heidelberg (Jan Lüken & Marcus Ewald), Belgrade (Goran Jankuloski & Tijana Mejalkovic). 

The motion was This house believes that parties’ electoral campaigns should only be funded by the state.

You can find the video of the final plus the full results at http://viv11.debattierklubwien.at/

- Finally the University of Limerick Debating Union will be awarding it's annual Auditor's medal for contribution to discourse and debating to Dr Garret Fitzgerald, former Taoiseach of Ireland,.  The presentation will be made to Dr Fitzgerald on Thursday 10th March in UL.  All going well I plan to attend.

LSE Open (Call for Judges)‏

Would you like to judge great debates, enjoy amazing socials, and get lots of free food and alcohol?


Being an Open at which many experienced judges will be debating , the tournament requires a large number of volunteers to act as qualified external judges.

Looking at our tab, we are confident in predicting that this tournament will see some of the most competitive debates of the term. We are very dedicated to bringing in as many qualified judges as possible.

We are thus very grateful (a gratitude expressed largely in free liquor) for all those who will come out and judge.

Please contact us in advance, either on facebook, by joining the event "judging at the LSE Open" ( http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149897958397311&ref=ts)  of my emailing John.ashbourne (at) gmail.com or A.A.Kazi (at) LSE.ac.uk.

Looking forward to seeing you all in February,

John Ashbourne & Anser Aftab

LSE Open (Call for Judges)‏

Would you like to judge great debates, enjoy amazing socials, and get lots of free food and alcohol?


Being an Open at which many experienced judges will be debating , the tournament requires a large number of volunteers to act as qualified external judges.

Looking at our tab, we are confident in predicting that this tournament will see some of the most competitive debates of the term. We are very dedicated to bringing in as many qualified judges as possible.  We are thus very grateful (a gratitude expressed largely in free liquor) for all those who will come out and judge.

Please contact us in advance, either on facebook, by joining the event "judging at the LSE Open" ( http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149897958397311&ref=ts) of my emailing John.ashbourne (at) gmail.com or A.A.Kazi (at) LSE.ac.uk.

Looking forward to seeing you all in February,

John Ashbourne & Anser Aftab

English Mace 2010 Results

Cambridge A (Doug Cochran and Maria English) have won the 2010 English Mace.

Monash win Cambridge IV 2010

Monash A (Victor Finkel and Fiona Prowse) have won the Cambridge IV. Sam Block topped the speaker tab

Leiden B (Rob Honig & Ali Al Khatib) won the ESL final and Rob Honig was the best ESL speaker.


Breaking teams:

1 BPP A 14 846
2 MANCHESTER A 13 845
3 MONASH A 13 832
4 ULU A 12 845
5 SYDNEY UNION A 12 841
6 YALE A 12 801
7 DURHAM B 12 793
8 DURHAM A 11 819
9 UBC A 11 818
10 LSE B 11 810
11 KINGS INNS A 11 798
12 LOYOLA A 11 794
13 YALE C 11 785
14 OXFORD C 10 829
15 OXFORD A 10 819
16 UCD LAW C 10 788



ESL Break:
1 LEIDEN UNIVERSITY B 10 777
2 ASDV BONAPARTE A 10 766
3 BDU B 9 755
4 UTRECHT A 8 749
5 UTRECHT B 8 737
6 LEIDEN UNIVERSITY A 7 750
7 BBU A 7 739
8 UTRECHT C 7 737
- IIUM A 7 737
Utrecht C won the coin toss for the 8th spot in the semis.



More results once I get them.
Source: Twitter, comments & e-mail

LSE Win Oxford IV

LSE A (John Ashbourne & Anser Aftab) have won the 2010 Oxford Intervarsity.

Erasmus Rotterdam (Daniel Springer & Jeroen Heun) won the ESL competition. 

The tab has been posted here

Breaking Teams
Cambridge A
Cambridge B
Yale C
Manchester SR
Durham A
Manchester AJ
Yale A
Stanford B
Monash
Sydney
TCD Hist B
ULU C
Princeton AL
UBC A
LSE A
St Andrews

ESL Break:
Groingen B
MGIMO A
Helmut Kohl and E Germany
Erasmus A
Lieden
BBU C
Urecht B
Mykolas Romerus
UCU WH

Motions
Final: This house believes that democracies should conscript citizens by lottery when facing any prolonged military intervention.
Semi Final: This house believes that, compared to a planned economy, the free market does not make ordinary workers more free.
Qtr Final:  This house believes that the UN should offer large bounties for the capture of pirates and the destruction of pirate ships
Round 1: This House believes that Adoption Agencies that receive state funding should give priority to same sex couples and infertile couples.
Round 2: This House would ban the use of armed combat drones.
Round 3: This House would tax those who use expensive lawyers in order to fund state prosecutors and legal aid.
Round 4: This House would require large online social networks to be controlled democratically by their users
Round 5: This House would hold the state liable for injuries or deaths due to being homeless.
ESL Semi: This house would abolish state funding of all arts degrees
ESL Final: This house would alter WTO rules to allow poor countries to erect protectionist barriers against rich countries


Source: http://progymna.blogspot.com/ and http://achteminute.vdch.de/