
Exeter centenary dinner
Exeter’s black-tie dinner celebration of the ESU’s centenary focused heavily on the educational aims and transformational potential of the ESU’s core programmes.

Bedfordshire Junior Debate Academy holds second annual meeting
The Junior debate academy meeting saw eight Bedfordshire schools debate on four topics spanning censorship, social networking, blood sports and women MPs.

Exeter lunch with James Levelle
The guest speaker at the Exeter branch April Meeting was James Levelle, adventurer and filmmaker. His talk was entitled “Free Ride to South America". The Times said of James that “He’s nice but mad”.

Philippines fields best young speaker
Johanne Jazmin Tan Jabines from the Philippines beat 50 other contestants from across the world to win the International Public Speaking Competition 2018.

The Bedfordshire Junior Public Speaking Competitions
Bedford School hosted eighteen schools for the eighth junior Public Speaking Competitions.

Does debating help you deal with stress?
This blog looks at how students think debating has helped them navigate trying times ahead of mental health awareness week.

Ensuring that girls are given a voice
Sam Leith and Mary Beard remark on the number of females achieving in the ESU's Churchill Public Speaking Competition 2018.

Ouse Valley centenary lunch meeting: Anglo American relations
The Junior Public Speaking lunch meeting show cased the talents of year 4/5 Bedfordshire students.

Public speaking Maltese-style
Pia Zammit, Director of ESU Malta, tells us about the thriving Public Speaking Competition in her country.
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