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  • This house prefers companies providing non-monetary benefits (e.g. flexibility, additional paid leaves, training, childcare support) over monetary benefits (e.g. higher wages, cash bonuses, discount vouchers)

    Shanghai WSDC Open 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-09-12

  • This house opposes the rise of Private Equity in residential housing markets

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    After the waves of home foreclosures during the 2008 financial crisis, Private Equity (PE) firms bought distressed homes in bulk and turned them into rentals. Today, there are several PE firms that together own more than 2.2 million units, about 10% of the total housing stock in the U.S. alone. More recently in 2023, China implemented policy measures in a bid to attract PE funding into its housing market.

    IIUM KUANTAN ABP · Round 4 · 2025-09-12

  • In secular states with religious diversity, this house believes that states should aggressively support religious reinterpretative groups

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    Religious reinterpretative groups are movements, organizations, or schools of thought within a religion that reinterpret existing religious texts, doctrines, or traditions. Examples include Liberation Theology, Islamic Feminism, Arya Samaj* etc. *Arya Samaj is an Indian Hindu reform movement that rejects hereditary caste and untouchability as later distortions, advocating for a merit-based social order

    IIUM KUANTAN ABP · Round 5 · 2025-09-12

  • This house prefers the controlled model to the flexible model

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, there are two models through which teacher training and hiring can be done. Under the controlled model, the government or the central authority sets strict qualifications for entry into the teaching profession, imposes rigorous training programs, and maintains strong oversight over recruitment, certification, and professional development of teachers. In contrast, under the flexible model, entry qualifications and training requirements are generally more relaxed, and local authorities or individual schools have more control over hiring and training of the teachers.

    IIUM KUANTAN ABP · Round 2 · 2025-09-12

  • This house prefers the current model over the revamp

    Infoslide

    The current Gifted Education Programme (GEP) system aims to identify intellectually gifted students through a two-stage exercise in Primary 3. Those selected are invited to join one of the nine designated primary schools offering the programme. Starting from the 2024 Primary 1 cohort, every primary school will now be equipped with resources to identify their own high-ability students from Primary 4 to 6 and run their own school-based programmes to nurture these students in their area of strengths and interests, instead of the current centralised programme. The revamp will also take into account recommendations from teachers, instead of the current system where it is solely assessment- based. The revamp is expected to increase the number of students admitted into GEP to about 10% of each cohort, while it was previously from around 1% in the current system.

    Youth Debate Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-09-08

  • This house supports the idea of "derusting".

    Infoslide

    Derusting is a debate term which refers to experienced debaters masquerading to debate in high school tournaments, often breaking and at times even failing to break. They argue that they want to use it as a platform to improve themselves but also give value to tournaments. However, students argue that they are traumatized by the existence of such speakers.

    Oratorical Arena 2.0 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-09-05

  • This house believes that the European Union should abandon its fiscal rules (i.e., debt and deficit limits) in favor of growth-first national economic policies

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    The European Union’s fiscal rules, known as the Stability and Growth Pact, require member states to limit their annual government deficit to 3% of GDP and public debt to 60% of GDP. A growth-first policy prioritizes economic expansion and employment, even if it requires sustained public spending and debt accumulation. It often entails deficit-financed investment in infrastructure with the assumption that growth will stabilize debt ratios over time.

    Connections IV 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-08-30

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of feminist movements to aggressively advocate for the normalization of alternative families.

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    An "alternative family" refers to a family structure that differs from the traditional nuclear family model of a married heterosexual couple with biological children. Examples include, but are not limited to single-parent families, cohabiting partners without legal marriage, blended families formed after divorce and remarriage, same-sex parent families, child-free couples, or even chosen families composed of close friends or community members who take on familial roles.

    India ABP Fundraiser 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-30

  • This house believes that governments should prioritise supply-side solutions over demand-side and redistributive solutions to address housing crises in major cities

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    In many major cities, housing costs have risen rapidly due to population growth, urbanisation, and limited new development. Economists broadly agree that two leading strategies can reduce housing costs: Supply-side solutions aim to increase the total number of housing units, primarily through zoning reform, easing building restrictions, and incentivising private development. Demand-side and redistributive solutions aim to help individuals afford housing through government interventions such as rent control, public/social housing, rental subsidies, or taxes on vacant homes. While both approaches can coexist, governments often have limited resources and must prioritise one approach in both funding and political capital.

    Cambridge Union Schools Debating Championship Australia New Zealand Round 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-08-30