Sentences with phrase «university debating society»

For example, if you're a history undergraduate considering careers in teaching, law or accountancy you might join the university debating society, stand for election to become treasurer of the choral society and spend a morning a week in term time volunteering at a local school.

However, on Wednesday 4 March 2009, the St Andrews University Debating Society held their debate of the motion, «This House Believes Global Warming is a Global Crisis» in the Old Parliament Building, St Andrews.

I write to report on a debate that defeated the motion «This House Believes Global Warming is a Global Crisis» during a meeting of the St Andrews University Debating Society.

Not exact matches

During a debate at Stanford University last month, he described Silicon Valley as «a one - party state» and said, «That's when you get in trouble politically in our society, when you're all in one side.»

On February 9th, 2017, the Runnymede Society of McGill University's Faculty of Law held a debate on the patent system, whether it encourages or stifles innovation.

Writing in the Baylor Law Review before the Romer decision, David Smolin of Samford University Law School argues that the present Court» rejecting «religiously based» claims as inherently particularistic» is increasingly dismissing «traditional theists» as too absolutist to join in public debate in a pluralistic society.

The violence that preempted the talk of a prominent alt - right speaker on University of California Berkeley's campus has set off a debate over the role of free speech in American society.

The third edition of the Ghana Universities Debate Championship, which commenced from the 15th of June 2016, and hosted along the coast by the University of Cape Coast Debate Society, has ended successfully.

Free expression, the free exchange of ideas and free debate are hallmarks of an open society; violence and the threat of violence should never be allowed to compromise that, especially in our universities.

We believe that this will go a long way in preventing the illegitimate shutting down of debate and activities on campus which has affected many universities in recent years, including several Humanist Students societies.

The University of Ghana will be represented by two students from the University of Ghana Debate Society at the World University Debate Championship in Mexico from Wednesday, 27th December, 2017, to Thursday, 4th January, 2018.

The reform was necessary and was welcomed by the country's major science organisations (the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG], the Max Planck Society and the German Science Council) and the organisation that represents university heads (Association of Universities and Other Higher Education Institutions, or Hochschulrektorenkonferenz), although the HRG has been one of the most hotly debated topics in the country's academic circles.

These beliefs play a key role in shaping people's opinions, and ultimately, their support for scientific advances, according to the study «Understanding Public Opinion in Debates Over Biomedical Research: Looking Beyond Partisanship to Focus on Beliefs about Science and Society,» by American University professor Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D., and Ezra Markowitz, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University.

Stephen Stansfeld, Professor of Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London (Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry), comments: «The so - called «happiness debate» has gained a lot of attention in recent years, with economists, politicians and psychologists all hypothesizing on how to create a happy society.

Breaking News: A public debate on the merits of NASA's plan for a cislunar space station will be held at the 2017 International Mars Society Convention this September at the University of California Irvine.

Students in Cornell University's course, The GMO Debate: Science and Society, visited a genetic engineering laboratory at Boyce Thompson Institute, courtesy of Assistant Professor Joyce Van Eck and postdoctoral researcher Alex Amaro, Stern Lab.

Convention highlights included a series of public debates on key issues and challenges facing Mars exploration and the future of the U.S. space program, as well as the final face - off of university student teams presenting designs for the Mars Society's International Gemini Mars competition.

Launched by law students at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Chicago in 1982, the Federalist Society built networks and created forums to air conservative arguments, emphasizing discussion and debate rather than decreeing set positions.

Likewise, research conducted in partnership between NFER and the University of York suggests that schools welcome the opportunity for their pupils to engage widely in debates on contemporary issues and to critically appraise their role within society.

«Speaking out: Siting the Voice in Contemporary Asian Art», Courtauld Institute of Art and Kings College, University of London 2017 Conceptualism — Intersectional Readings, International Framings Conference, AHRC Black Artists and Modernism project in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum, NL, 7 - 9 December 2017 Trinh T Minh - ha Symposium, ICA London, 3 December 2017 Women in Collections Symposium, Contemporary Art Society / Sackler CPD Programme, Leeds City Art Gallery, 19 October 2017 Deviant Researching Symposium, part of Demodernising the Collection, Van Abbemuseum, NL, 21 - 23 September 2016 Now and Then, Here and There Conference, AHRC Black Artists and Modernism, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UAL / Clore auditorium, Tate Britain, 6 - 8 October 2016 Kung Fury: Contemporary Debates in Martial Arts Cinema Symposium, AHRC Martial Arts Studies Network, Birmingham City University, 1 April 2015 Martial Arts Studies Conference, with Luke White, Cardiff University, 10 - 12 June 2015 How to See the World Panel discussion & book launch, with Nicholas Mirzeoff, Jon Bird, Sonia Boyce, Nadja Milner - Larsen, ICA, London 4 June 2015 (In) Direct Speech: «Chineseness» in Contemporary Art Symposium, University of Lisbon, 16 - 19 March 2014 Thinking with Berger Conference, with Juliette Kristensen, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 4 - 5 September 2014 Mega Events & Culture: Arts & Artists Engagement in Events - based Regeneration, Resistance & Research Regional Studies Association, Research Seminar, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, 17 June 2014 Image — Movement — Story Conference, University of Roehampton, 14 June 2014 SPSL / A to Y Public Lecture, MAI (Montreal Arts Interculturels / University of Concordia, Montreal QC, 12 April 2013 Inter-Asian Connections IV Conference, in the strand «Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary», Koç University, Istanbul.

The Great Debate About Art by Roy Harris, who was an Oxford University linguist, attempts to provide a response to the «historical residue of empty questions that contemporary society can no longer answer» after the modernist implosion of Art as a cohesive category.

«Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values... holds great promise to help American society better understand and appreciate the risks of climate change...» — George Mason University, Center for Climate Change Communication, May 9, 2011

Public Comment Policy This policy asserts Macquarie University's commitment to the principles of academic freedom, and its expectation that staff will challenge society's ideas and contribute to open debate by commenting publicly within areas of their professional expertise.

At a recent debate at Oxford University, organized by the OU Engineering Society, I gave the undergraduates an argument from process engineering (which you will find in outline in my Union College presentation, and in more detail in my Hartford College lecture) to the effect that the closed - loop temperature - feedback gain in the climate system (i.e., the product of the Planck parameter and the net sum of all unamplified feedbacks) can not much exceed 0.1, implying at most 1.3 K of warming per CO2 doubling, compared with the IPCC's central estimate of 3.3 K.

Posts about the debate over whether law societies should accept degrees from faith - based university Trinity Western with its controversial community covenant as well as matters involving judicial appointments and independence also feature on this list.

After 18 speakers, billable hours that probably reached $ 250,000 from participating lawyers, and two hours of debate yesterday, the resolution to reverse the earlier Law Society of British Columbia's decision to approve Trinity Western University's law school pass has passed at a special meeting vote with a wide margin.

Human rights and legal groups lobbying for a public and open debate on whether the Law Society of British Columbia should grant accreditation to graduates of Trinity Western University's proposed law school instead got an invitation from benchers for written submissions.

After two days of impassioned debate and weeks of contemplation, the benchers of the Law Society of Upper Canada have voted not to accredit Trinity Western University's proposed law school because of its Christian community covenant, which bans gay sex.

The debate between law societies and universities about the contours of law degrees has been at the forefront of discussions between law schools and law societies for the past ten years.

In the aftermath of yesterday's historic debate before the Law Society of Upper Canada, in which the application of Trinity Western University for accreditation of a law degree was rejected 28 - 21, with one abstention, a number of colleagues asked me about the tactical considerations involved in this two - day process.

Jen is a Grand Finalist of the World University Debating Championship 2012, for the Oxford Union Debating Society.

Other activities such as writing for your university newspaper, being a member of the debating team, and other such societies could certainly enhance your future chances of success, as long as they relate to the industry you're interested in.

The political societies at university engage debating and public speaking skills to talk about contemporary global issues.

CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT AND VOLUNTEER WORK • Active member of the science and business clubs • Worked as a community server at the SOS Children's Village for three months • Active member of the debating society • Managed workshops for educational development • Captain of the university soccer team

This event was part of an NHMRC funded research project «Evaluating the effectiveness of comprehensive primary health care in local communities» being conducted at the Southgate Institute for Health Society and Equity at Flinders University The aim of the symposium was to feed back some of the key emerging findings from the study, and to engage primary health care practitioners and policy makers in debate and discussion about the implications of these findings for primary health care policy and practice.