Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Back in 1992, my school friend Daniel Saxby and I stood in London in front of an audience of worthies and a panel of ...
When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...
Every time I get a message from a junior or a peer asking me for help on how to join debating, the most I can do in my limited capacity is suggest they join their school's debating club. Since that, ...
Communication skills are vital for all young people, both to succeed in their education and in later life. The annual Education and Skills Survey (CBI and EDI) this year showed that 42% of employers ...
It’s the era of intellectual tribalism, echo chambers and opinions driven by the Pavlovian response to social media “likes”. So how do you nurture independent thinking in the young minds of the ...
On BBC2's The Speaker, spinmeister supreme Alastair Campbell was hammering home his point: be absolutely clear about the objective of your speech. "Tony Blair was obsessed," he revealed, always asking ...
Picture this: you’re a student at a Chinese Medium Instruction (CMI) school. You like the challenges of learning and using English. You’ve been reading articles about debating in Young Post, and ...
From time to time you hear local people decrying Hong Kong students’ falling English standards. But there’s one part of primary and secondary English here that’s been roaring ahead in the past 10 ...
Philippine debating remains a locus of liberal rhetoric. Except its focus is no longer America, but Asia. There has always been something oratorical about Filipino liberalism. Most of the key liberals ...