It’s the era of intellectual tribalism, echo chambers and opinions driven by the Pavlovian response to social media “likes”. So how do you nurture independent thinking in the young minds of the ...

Every time I get a message from a junior or a peer asking me for help on how to join debating, the most I can do in my limited capacity is suggest they join their school's debating club. Since that, ...

From time to time you hear local people decrying Hong Kong students’ falling English standards. But there’s one part of primary and secondary English here that’s been roaring ahead in the past 10 ...

It is fair to say that my days of cut-and-thrust debating are behind me. Back in secondary school, I was part of my school’s English debating team and took part in debating tournaments, such as the ...

When Bo Seo applied to become a trainee journalist at The Australian Financial Review in late 2018, it presented the editors with a difficult decision. As the two-time World Debating champion, coach ...