
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.

Top tips…from the winners of our Debating Culture Award
Winners of the ESU debating culture award 2018, St Peter's school, share their tips and activities for building a sustainable nature of oracy and debating in your school.

Exeter branch talk on migration by Jonathan Lee Draper
The Exeter and District branch hosted Dr Jonathan Draper who was Dean of Exeter Cathedral from 2011 to 2017. He is now the part-time General Secretary of Modern Church, a liberal Christian charity.

Public Speaking Competition for schools: Liverpool & Merseyside
The Liverpool & Merseyside branch final for the Public Speaking Competition winners were chosen in a tight and close competition.

And the winners are...
The winners of the Schools' Mace and Performing Shakespeare competitions for 2018 are announced.

Midlands regional final of Public Speaking Competition
The Midlands Final of the Public Speaking Competition was hosted by Oxfordshire this year. With great difficulty the judges decided to award first place to Oxford Spires Academy with the Pates Grammar School team as a very worthy runner-up.
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