{"id":1364,"date":"2020-06-19T12:19:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2020-11-27T17:17:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T17:17:38","slug":"online-debating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2020\/06\/19\/online-debating\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Debating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have developed debating sessions for students in Years 9 and 10. Our objective is to help students feel more comfortable articulating their opinions, as well as increasing their confidence in public speaking.<\/p>\n<p>We will introduce students to the British Parliamentary Debating (BPD). Students will participate in mini-debates, with the aim of having two full-length debates in the final session.<\/p>\n<p>This 6-week module is best delivered in a one hour slot each week.<\/p>\n<p>These interactive sessions will be run on Zoom and are lead by a member of staff, who is supported by university student ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p>Online Debating can be run for individual schools who have a minimum of 10 students interested, or multi-school if schools have a smaller group of students who want to take part.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in Online Debating, please email <a href=\"mailto:outreach@kent.ac.uk\">outreach@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to keep up to date with our latest news is to follow us on twitter @UniKentOutreach or to opt in to receiving our Schools Bulletin <a href=\"https:\/\/kent.us18.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=af43fb6ff6a8d6d49b3a86b01&amp;id=443e5c5c4e\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have developed debating sessions for students in Years 9 and 10. Our objective is to help students feel more comfortable articulating their opinions, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2020\/06\/19\/online-debating\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}