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  • This house would Abolish Academic Tenure

    Infoslide

    Academic tenure is a type of academic appointment in universities where an academic's employment cannot be terminated except in exceptional circumstances (e.g. a crime, a serious breach of duties, the university being unable to pay them). It is usually granted to senior academics.

    Chattogram BP 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-01-12

  • This house opposes networking culture in businesses.

    Infoslide

    Networking is the action or process of interacting with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts. Examples of networking events are buffet-style dinner parties, workshops with group discussions, and entertaining business partners (接待).

    TSO 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-01-01

  • This house opposes 100% zero-emission vehicle policies

    Infoslide

    Recently, many developed countries have announced laws to ban the sales of internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) and hybrid vehicles (HVs) and make 100% of the cars zero-emission (i.e. electric) by 2035-2040. Consequently, most car companies, including Tesla, Ford, and Toyota, have announced to invest significantly on electric vehicles (EVs) at the expense of stopping development of other vehicles. Investing in EVs require massive change in supply chain and employment, as the components for electric vehicles are significantly different from ICEVs.

    Asian Bridge 2024 · Round3 · 2024-01-01

  • This house opposes Publish or Perish culture in academia.

    Infoslide

    ‘Publish or Perish’ refers to the attitude or practice existing within academic institutions whereby emphasis is placed on publishing material at regular intervals in order to be deemed successful.

    Vitark 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-01-01

  • This house believes that Nippon Pro Baseball should abolish the posting system

    Infoslide

    The Posting System is a player transfer system between Nippon Professional Baseball (the 2nd biggest baseball league in the world based out of Japan), and the MLB. Players ask to be posted and are given 30 days to negotiate with MLB teams (American baseball). If a player is able to find an MLB willing to sign them to a contract, the MLB team pays a posting fee to the NPB team, which is a number based on the the contract signed between the player and the MLB. Posting fees historically range from 50 thousand, to 50 million dollars. If no contract can be agreed upon between the MLB and the player, then the player returns to their NPB team

    NA Spar Pre-WUDC 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-12-16

  • This House supports an elven revolution against Santa Claus

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate Santa Claus (also known as Father Christmas or Saint Nicholas) is a mythical creature who lives on the North Pole and delivers gifts (or coal) to the world's children every Christmas Eve, based on his assessment of their deeds and morality throughout the year. Santa's manufacturing facilities are operated by elves, who spend all year making various toys and gifts, maintaining Santa's sleigh and tending to his reindeer in order for Santa to complete his yearly trip. The elves are magically bound by Santa to be unable to leave the Village on the North Pole, lest they risk revealing the existence of Santa and the Village.

    Zagreb Pre-WUDC 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-12-02

  • This House Supports Accredited Employers Programs.

    Infoslide

    Government assistance for workers can be directly funded by levies on companies (for example, unemployment or health care payments). All companies pay into the same pool of money, and all their workers are looked after from that pool. An Accredited Employers Program allows companies to chose to run their own services for its own employees instead of joining the government pool. Those companies are required to offer their employees that least equivalent support to the government run program.

    Auckland IV 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-12-02

  • This house opposes the norm of company founders remaining in key C-suite roles in the company after its IPO.

    Infoslide

    1) IPO = Initial Public Offering (when a company changes from private to public ownership by offering stocks to the public) 2) C-suite = a term used to describe high-ranking executive titles in an organization (e.g., chief executive officer, chief operating officer, etc.)

    Senior Fall HST 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-12-01

  • This house believes that we should levy an unemployment tax on the generated savings.

    Infoslide

    Companies that use artificial intelligence augmentation to their business processes enjoy additional savings. This is because AI can make their production (or inventory or distribution, etc.) more efficient through removing the human element initially employed by these processes. We can measure how much money these savings equal to.

    Taiwan Schools Debate Challenge 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-11-18

  • This house, as a new media company, W choose to maintain the writers' anonymity without consistent attribution of any particular writer (for example, the Economist) rather than individual writers having their own independent, recognisable voices (for example, the Atlantic)

    Pacific Schools Open 2023 · Round 6 · 2023-11-10