Kaduna State Debating Society KSDS

01/10/2022

22/08/2021

Bali UADC 2021 Update

Dear all,

Please note that registration will be delayed and will only be available tomorrow 21 Aug 2021 at 18:00 GMT +8.

Please also note the following regarding registration
Registration comes with immediate payment
Accepted payment methods: VISA, MasterCard, Alipay
Please indicate the institution name under the Special Requirements
No limit on no. of teams per institution
Registration will follow an event Refund Policy*
Registration is NON-TRANSFERABLE
Teams have a responsibility to check and adhere to eligibility criteria; in the case that Council rejects the team's participation, no refund will be given

*Full Refunds (100%) will be allowed within 24 hours of booking in case of accidental duplicate bookings between members. The amount will not be captured but instead, returned back to the payee.

We look forward to opening registrations!

Regards,
UADC 2021

20/07/2021

BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE STYLE In our secondary/high schools, your opinion please.

08/03/2021

We're sorry for the delay regarding our event today, we'll be starting in a few minutes

29/12/2020

Introduction to the World Schools Style Debating format part 1.
Please enjoy learning how it works and don't forget to like and leave us a comment to any questions you may have.
(KSDS)

18/12/2020

A debate entails discussions usually in the form of arguments from two opposing sides of a motion/topic, the clash of the two opposite sided arguments raised from both proposition and opposition is what makes the debate.
Debate has a long list of uses in policy making, decision making, settling disagreements, enacting and rectifying laws etc.

While the emergence of debating societies date back to early eighteenth century, debating itself goes a lot far beyond that.

Modern competitive debating has many different formats and styles used in different tournaments globally, and these include but are not limited to: World Schools Style Debating (WSS), British Parliamentary style (BP), Australasian format, Lincoln-Douglas format, mock trials, legislative debating, Mini United Nations (MUN) etc.

In the Kaduna State Debating Society (KSDS) however, we only practice two formats of debating and they are:

1. World schools Style debating (WSS) which is used in the World Schools Debating Championships and other high school level tournaments around the world.

2. The British Parliamentary format (BP): this is also a globally utilized format of debate used in the World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) and other university level debate tournaments world wide.

However, in the KSDS we use the WSS style more than we do the BP format because only a few global highschool debate tournament organizers have BP track for their annual tournaments.

Would you want to learn about the WSS debating format?
Stay tuned as we are soon starting a chain thread of posts telling you all about the WSS debating format and at the end of which we’ll share to all who are interested in having a copy of our debating handbook focusing on teaching how to win WSS style debates.

Anas Abubakar (Coach)

17/12/2020

Hello fellow debate enthusiast, it's been a while since we've been active on this page.
Thank you for your patience and do look forward to our pieces on debating and particularly the World Schools style of debating coming up soon.
We'll also be giving away for free our composed handbook on debate strategies and techniques for winning debates for free to all those that are interested in having a copy.
We'll keep you updated on when and how we'll be sharing it.
Thank you.

03/11/2020

Great debate session today at Ekonomska fakulteta Univerza v Ljubljani / University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Economics Ljubljana) as a part of the "EU economics and Slovenia" course. I am really happy that debate is used as a teaching methodology more and more often at all levels of education.

Topic for today was resolution analysis, argumentation, refutation & comparative analysis connected with the issues of common EU markets and EU cohesion funds. Tnx to Ivan Koruza for the help with materials and big tnx to prof. Šlander Wostner for invitation and cooperation!

Miha andric

25/10/2020

Announcing the prepped motions for ODSDC!

Our CAP has come up with two amazing prepped motions for the tournament:
1. THBT social media companies should set up independent organs to regulate content on their platforms (round 1)
2. THBT Trump's foreign policy did more good than harm (round 4 & grand final)

We will also be sending out the confirmations of team spots to all registered institutions today or tomorrow, so keep an eye out for that email!

10/06/2020

Being part of KDS ALPHA gives you a whole new hope and expose you to different cultures and people. (Leaders in the making) . We are presently the No 1 team in Nigeria, thanks to for providing equal opportunity for both privileged and socially disadvantaged students. https://t.co/2Qx2wRqQdL

11/05/2020

Take advantage of the lockdown and build your public speaking skills and confidence.

1) Read alot of novels, books, magazines and news papers.

2)Expand your social engagement both local and international by understanding how the economy functions, facts, figures and stay away from fake news.

3) Take advantages of the transparency in our government policies and services by understanding how it works and were it functions.

4) Engage yourself in a lot issues especially related to this covid_19 by posting preventive measures, awareness, your personal veiws and understanding of the disease.

5)Try as much as possible to engage with your friends verbally in other to build self confidence.