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Read what they had to say
In two years Debating Matters has:
- Reached out to over 600 schools in the last two years
- Played host to more than 40 live events.
- Involved more than 3000 pupils through various stages of the competition.
- Involved over 350 key individuals from diverse backgrounds as vital resource persons for the competition. The individuals covered diverse responsibilities such as judging, coaching students, speaking on event, topic guide writing and so on.
- Researched and published 21 Topic Guides as online guides to contemporary issues with extensive further resources provided.
- Successful live-streaming of all debates and allied activities of the 2009-10 National Finals; the live stream or ‘webcast’ was watched by over 2000 people from 9 countries and 20 Indian states.
- A robust social media network that includes a dynamic facebook community, debate streaming channels and blogs dedicated solely towards Debating Matters.
I'd like to thank the British Council for pioneering this unique teaching – learning’ methodology into the art of public speaking.
Ranjana Bhattacharyya (Debate Coordinator, St.Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata)
No debating format can be compared to the one we experienced in DMI.It was tough, fun, exciting, thrilling and unnerving. Meeting the teams from all over India was a memorable experience I loved each and every moment of DMI. I learnt the importance of teamwork. Aashima Khosla (student), St Mark’s Senior Secondary School, New Delhi.
It was a terrific initiative, and personally, I was pretty impressed at how much it encouraged students like my niece Nayantara and her teammates to think about, and grapple with, current issues.
Parvati Nayar (Lady Andal Venkattasubba Rao School, Chennai)
