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This house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events
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As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the debating community shifted its activities online, with the vast majority of trainings, coaching, and tournaments (including majors such as WUDC, ABP, or EUDC) being held on various online platforms such as Zoom or Discord. With the end of the pandemic, much of debating has begun to revert to offline events (e.g. the past three iterations of WUDC were held in-person), although online debating has not completely died out.

Diliman Pre-Asian British Parliamentary 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-23
This house, as an average highschool student in the developed world, would choose not to attend university
Diliman Pre-Asian British Parliamentary 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-23
This house, as a tenured professor in medium-sized state university, should heavily prioritize longitudinal basic research as opposed to applied research.
- Education/Academia
- Science/Technology
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Longitudinal basic research examines the same social phenomenon over long and extended periods of time (e.g., race-based violence, socially-constructed gender roles) On the other hand, applied research is mostly small-scale, and short-termist research on timely social phenomenon which provides academic outputs that can be immediately utilized by specific groups of people (e.g., election- associated violence in Mindanao, feminism within Islamic communities)

7th Bicol Debate Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-08-23
This House believes that AI has devalued genuine expertise.
Friday Night Debates 2025: An African Debate Super League · Power Pair 16 · 2025-08-22
This house supports the release of the 'Burn Book".
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In the movie Mean Girls, a group of popular but 'mean' girls (the 'Plastics') wrote 'The Burn Book'. The Burn Book is a scrapbook with photos of people at their school with lines of gossip and insults underneath the photos (e.g. 'dyke", 'too gay to function", 'made out with the coach"). Regina George made the book public to the entire school by photocopying pages and throwing them in the school corridors. She blamed it on Cady. this caused a lot of fighting between students and suspicion of teachers being involved in illegal activities. The school board responded by forcing the students to talk in an open discussion about the things that were written down in the book such as sexuality (including slut- and virginshaming) fatshaming and anti-bullying.

Friday Night Debates 2025: An African Debate Super League · Power Pair 10 · 2025-08-22
This house would only allow university admission on the basis of standardized testing, as opposed to non-quantitative methods (e.g. essays, alumni interviews)
Vietnam Debate Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-20
In developing countries, This house opposes the prioritization of funding STEM subjects in universities at the expense of funding non STEM subjects
Vietnam Debate Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-20
This house believes that the glorification of theoretical research over applied research does more harm than good.
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Theoretical research develops abstract concepts and models, while applied research uses knowledge to solve real-world problems.

Vietnam Debate Open 2025 · School Junior (U-15) Semifinals · 2025-08-20
In places with high levels of religious radicalism, This house believes that schools should push progressive interpretations of religious texts as opposed to secular classes on ethics and morality
Vietnam Debate Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-20
This House prefers British Parliamentary to 3v3 debating
- Education/Academia
- Culture
LUMS Intervarsity 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-19
This House Would Make It Illegal To Expel Students For Pregnancy
Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Round 3 · 2025-08-18
This House Regrets The Populisation Of Online Learning
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Online learning refers to education delivered through digital platforms, allowing students to access courses and materials remotely. Over the past decade, it has grown rapidly due to advances in technology, increased internet access, and flexibility for learners. The COVID- 19 pandemic further accelerated adoption, making online education a mainstream option worldwide, with millions of learners engaging in virtual classrooms and hybrid models.

Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Round 3 · 2025-08-18
This House Regrets Zero-Tolerance Policies for Youth's
Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Round 1 · 2025-08-18
This House Believes That Prom Culture Promotes Unhealthy Social Norms
Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Round 1 · 2025-08-18
This house prefers that post-conflict nations teach "history from above" as opposed to "history from below"
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"History from above" examines the actions and perspectives of elites, leaders, and powerful institutions, often emphasizing political and military events. "History from below," in contrast, focuses on the experiences, actions, and perspectives of ordinary people, marginalized groups, and social movements.

Orgullo Intervarsity 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-16
This House Believes That universities should heavily prioritise subject-related expertise (eg. academic results, Olympiads, internships) over holistic factors (eg. leadership, sports) in admissions decisions.
- Education/Academia
- Social Policy
Tuesday Academy Debate Open · Round 1 · 2025-08-16
This House would assign all prospective candidates to public universities through a degree assignment algorithm
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A degree assignment algorithm takes a combination of input data from a student, including their academic performance, extra curricular activities, an aptitude test (skills strengths and weaknesses) and personality test to recommend a university degree programme most suited for a candidate. For purposes of this debate, it can be assumed that this algorithm is reasonably accurate and its decision is binding

BRAC Genders 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-15
This house, as Veronica, Would accept the offer
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Veronica is a typical "nerd" in a big American high school. Veronica and her two best friends spend their time working hard at school, pursuing geeky extracurriculars (chess, Math Olympiad, debate...), and getting constantly bullied by the school's popular kids. One day, after saving the Prom Queen from being runover by a bus, she offers Veronica to join the popular group, as long as long as she cut off her friends and quit her geeky extracurriculars.

St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-08-13
This House Prefers a World where a more optimistic set of artists rose to prominence after World War I rather than the Lost Generation.
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For the purposes of this debate, the Lost Generation is a group of writers and artists who created their art in and around World War I (e.g. writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald; other artists such as Edvard Munch and Otto Dix). The art of the Lost Generation featured prominent themes of disillusionment, defeatism, and uncertainty about the future. The artists often drew from their experience of the war and their troubled personal lives. Their art has had significant influence over later artistic trends and holds a prominent position in many art and literature curriculums globally.

Copenhagen European Universities Debating Championships 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-03
This House Supports European universities limiting freedom of speech among their staff and students.
Copenhagen European Universities Debating Championships 2025 · Partial Octofinals · 2025-08-03