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  • This house, as an intelligent student from a low-income family, would pursue vocational training over a traditional college degree

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    Vocational training are instructional programs that focus on the skills required for a particular job function or trade. In vocational training, education prepares students for specific careers which are often more manual (i.e., plumbing, hairdressing), disregarding traditional, unrelated academic subjects.

    Davao Novice Cup 2025 · High School Finals · 2025-10-18

  • This house regrets the Down to the Countryside Movement

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    The Down to the Countryside Movement was a policy instituted in China between 1968 and 1980. It was declared that privileged urban youth should be sent to mountainous areas or farming villages to learn from the workers and farmers there. In total, around 17 million urban youth were sent to rural areas as a result of the movement.

    Malaysia Pre-WUDC 2025 · Pre-Semifinals · 2025-10-18

  • This house supports '10 SNUs' policy

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    The "10 Seoul National Universities" initiative is a higher education policy proposed by Lee Jae-myung's government, aiming to invest in 10 public universities across different regions of South Korea to match the status and quality of Seoul National University. This policy involves a large-scale financial investment, annual investment of a budget comparable to that of level of SNU in regional national flagship universities(지거국), and it has been launched with the aim of easing excessive competition in college admissions and addressing regional inequality. the aim of easing excessive competition in college admissions and addressing regional inequality.

    HYDS x SDS BP RT 2025 · Pre-Quarterfinals · 2025-10-11

  • This house would allow citizens to sue politicians for policies that cause unnecessary and reasonably foreseeable harm

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    "A government policy that causes "unnecessary and reasonably foreseeable" harm can be defined as follows: "Unnecessary harm" means harms that are not essential to achieving the policy’s core objective, and which could have been avoided through reasonable alternative designs or implementations. For example, if building a highway requires demolishing a home, that demolition is a necessary harm. However, if the chosen route displaces more homes than reasonably required, the excess displacement constitutes unnecessary harm. "Reasonably foreseeable" harm means harms that, at the time the policy is enacted, could be predicted with a material likelihood of occurring based on the information then available. This excludes remote, speculative, or trivial risks."

    Oxford Schools Debating Championship Australia New Zealand Round 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-11

  • THR rise of retail trading

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    Retail trading is the buying and selling of financial securities by individual, non-professional investors for their personal accounts, using their own money. Enabled by online brokerage platforms and mobile trading apps, this form of investing has become increasingly popular, particularly since the late 2010s.

    Laurier (Waterloo) Fall High School Tournament 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-11

  • THO seperate gender categories within competitions for sports with no obvious gendered physiological difference

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    Within the status quo, sports like ultramarathon swimming, sharpshooting, and curling have no obvious gendered difference, yet frequently have seperate categories within major competitions (like the olympics) based on gender.

    Laurier (Waterloo) Fall High School Tournament 2025 · Junior Semifinals · 2025-10-11

  • This house supports reallocating national education funding from teacher recruitment to systemic reforms that reduce students’ dependence on teachers (e.g. changing curriculum design, examination types, and school structure or implementing more technology usage)

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    Australia is experiencing a teacher undersupply crisis. Contributing factors include an ageing workforce, high rates of burnout and attrition, fewer university graduates entering teaching, and increasing student enrolments. As a result, many schools face difficulties maintaining class sizes, offering specialist subjects, and ensuring continuity of teaching staff.

    Oxford Schools Debating Championship Australia New Zealand Round 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-10-11

  • This house, as an elderly woman in a vulnerable situation in Japan, would commit minor offenses in order to be arrested.

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    In Japan, women’s prisons have a high standard of infrastructure and offer free medical care, regular meals, and programs for communal living. Work is mandatory, but it is adjusted to the limitations and needs of elderly inmates.

    IV UFMG Open · Rodada 1 · 2025-10-10

  • This House regrets the 'PJ-ization' of labor relations. Note: "Pejotização" (PJ-ization) is a Brazilian term referring to the practice where employers require workers to establish themselves as legal entities (PJ - Pessoa Jurídica or legal person/company) instead of hiring them as regular employees. This practice often allows employers to avoid labor obligations and benefits that would be required for formal employment relationships.

    Campeonato Nacional de Debates Escolares 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-08

  • This house believes that government shutdowns have done more harm than good

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    A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to pass, or the President refuses to sign, funding legislation for federal agencies. Without this authorization, many government operations stop: essential services like the military and air traffic control continue, but non-essential services such as national parks and many federal offices are suspended.

    Kamalig Pre-NDC 2025 · Novice Semifinals · 2025-10-04