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Goal-line technology, diving, and footballers paycheques were all debated at White Hart lane on 5 July at the Great Football Debate.
On Monday July 5 Speech and Debate continued their programme of Great Debates with the Great Tudor Debate at Hampton Court Palace.
On the 2nd July the new SSE 3 term scholars and their parents met at Dartmouth House for a briefing day before they left for a year in the States.
The final of the London Debate Challenge, the flagship outreach programme of the ESU, was held on Thursday 1 July
On Thursday 24 June Hannah Noyce and Emily MacKenzie from Oxford University beat off Dylan Gee and Henry Oliver representing BPP Law School in the final of The ESU – Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition, which was held in the President’s Court of the Royal Courts of Justice.
The Great Climate Change Debate, the latest in the great debates series, saw ESU Speech and debate work in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) to hold a day of debating at the home of RGS in Kensington.
A draft letter sent from George Washington to the Reverend Fairfax, and once owned by the ESU, has been sold at Sotheby's in New York for $16,250.
The ESU is pleased to invite entries for the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation.
Just as the George Washington Letter goes to sale in Sotheby’s New York, Sotheby’s Chairman in the UK was giving a Chilton Art History lecture on ‘Collectors and Collecting Since 1945’.
In late May and early June of this year the ESU welcomed two new countries into the International family, Malta and Turkey.