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  • This house supports bonded scholarship programmes by developing countries

    Infoslide

    Bonded scholarship programmes facilitate the ability of students to study abroad at elite universities. These programs are paid for by the state in return for the student being 'bonded' to work for the state for a given period of time (3, 5, 10 years). Students may be bonded to specific departments (eg. Government engineering facilities, public healthcare) or bonded as per government's discretion. It is possible for students to occasionally default on their bond and pay back the cost of education at a large premium

    Debutant 9.0 Freshers APD 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-10-09

  • This house believes that college graduates should prioritize being career generalists over career specialists

    Infoslide

    Career generalists have a wide spectrum of knowledge (e.g. gaining skills that you can use in various industries), while career specialists are subject matter experts in their areas of study (e.g., staying in one industry, getting specialist trainings, pursuing higher education).

    Debutant 9.0 Freshers APD 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-10-09

  • This house prefers to live in World Huxley as opposed to Earth.

    Infoslide

    Huxley is a world where every child at birth is assigned a specific occupational role (teacher, artist, engineer, etc) based on their intrinsic talents. People are assumed to be moderately successful in the roles they perform and the roles cannot be changed.

    Debutant 9.0 Freshers APD 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-10-09

  • This house supports the eventual automation of most white collar jobs

    Infoslide

    "White collar" refers to office-type jobs that typically require formal education or training and do not involve manual labor. Examples of white- collar jobs include company management, lawyers, accountants, financial and insurance jobs, consultants, and computer programmers, among many others.

    Waterloo Autumn HST · Round 4 · 2024-10-06

  • This house supports the widespread adoption of privately delivered public services

    Infoslide

    The private delivery of public services refers to governments paying for- profit companies to provide one or more government services. Examples include hiring consulting firms to guide vaccine rollouts, private contractors to build construction projects, and staffing agencies to hire nurses.

    Waterloo Autumn HST · Round 1 · 2024-10-06

  • This house believes that countries facing a demographic winter should prioritize increasing their population (increasing immigration and birthrates) over adapting their economies (changing industries and relocating people).

    Infoslide

    A demographic winter refers to a situation where a country experiences a sustained decline in birth rates and an aging population. This can lead to economic challenges such as labor shortages, decreased economic growth, and strain on social welfare systems.

    Taiwan Schools Debate Challenge 2024 · Junior Semifinals · 2024-10-05

  • This house believes that successful women in leadership positions (i.e. Corporate, Government, Social, etc.) should give preferential treatment to women

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, preferential treatment may refer to either subtle or explicit/public acts of financial, political, and emotional support (i.e. implicit hiring biases, giving better customer service, giving more scholarship slots to women, exclusive community programs, etc.)

    Oragon Debate Cup 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-10-05

  • This house prefers a world where individuals' primary collective identity is based on livelihood

    Infoslide

    The Vezo people are a semi-nomadic ethnic group living along the southwestern coast of Madagascar, known for their deep connection to the sea. Their collective identity is primarily shaped by their trades and livelihoods, such as being exceptional swimmers or skilled fishermen. In contrast, in status quo, collective identity is often formed based on a mixture of inherent social traits such as race, gender, or nationality.

    Krabi ABP 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-10-05

  • This house believes that the prevalence of survival shows in creating K-pop bands has had a negative impact

    Infoslide

    A trainee is a person who is training in a company to be able to debut in a K-pop group. Survival shows (e.g. <i>Boy’s Planet</i>’s creation of <i>Zerobaseone</i>) are reality competitions in which trainees from many agencies participate to gain visibility where the members with the most votes form a new K-pop group. Places in the final group are decided through audience votes. The final contestants are generally chosen regardless of nationality, affiliation with an agency, or prior experience and professional history as a singer.<br><br>

    Colonel By Novice Debate Tournament 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-05

  • This House, as a young Chinese person, opposes the trend of the Chinese work philosophy of "touching fish"

    Infoslide

    In China, young workers are protesting the 996 culture (working 9am-9pm, 6 days a week) by embracing a philosophy of laziness known as “touching fish”, taking advantage of when management’s focus is away from supervising their employees in order to work the least while not getting caught. Examples include filling up a thermos with whisky, getting up whenever another employee gets up, drinking liters of water to prompt lots of trips to the toilet on work time and, once there, spending time on social media or playing games on your phone. (The term takes after a Chinese proverb that says, 'muddy waters make it easy to catch fish' which means the more convoluted a situation, the easier it is for opportunistic behaviour.)

    Colonel By Novice Debate Tournament 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-10-05

  • This house, as the IT worker, would expose the security risk to your colleagues at the cost of your job.

    Infoslide

    You are a corporate IT worker with a recently born daughter and a loving partner at home who is a stay-at-home parent. To create a home for your family you recently bought an apartment with a mortgage. You often slack off at work. You frequently kill time playing computer games on an old seemingly abandoned desktop computer in the server room. After dying in Doom you decide to see what you can find on the old computer. You discover that the computer is logged into a database containing the personal information of the company’s millions of customers. Unfortunately, the old computer runs Windows XP and is connected to non-password-protected public wifi for visitors. This poses a critical security risk leaving the data vulnerable to a major leak. Exposing the security risk to your colleagues will cost you your job since you were not supposed to have access to the server room in the first place, much less to play Doom. No security cameras or keycard logs would prove that you ever went to the server room unless you say that you went there.

    SSE Riga Pro-Am VIII · Round 4 · 2024-10-04

  • This house supports the Democrats blocking the Nippon Steel acquisition of US Steel

    Infoslide

    Nippon Steel, Japan's largest steel producer agreed to acquire US Steel, the 5th largest steel producer in the US for ~$15B USD, $7B more than it's current market value of $8B.

    UCLA IV 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-09-28