The Schools Mace
the national debating competition
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This year, to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, the ESU Schools Mace is proud to announce a partnership with the Church Mission Society, which was founded by the great anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.
 CMS are sponsoring one of our first-round motions, “This House believes the British Government should apologise for Britain’s role in the slave trade”, and have created a website to help schools find out more about the issue. Whether or not you draw this motion in the first round, have a look. Perhaps you could debate the motion in your school club?
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The Schools Mace has been encouraging the discussion of controversial topics and current affairs since 1957. The competition is the largest and oldest schools debating tournament in the world, and former winners have gone on to be MPs, well-known journalists, captains of industry, senior lawyers, and prominent scientists. The Mace attracted a record number of more than 600 schools last year, including establishments of all types – further education colleges, comprehensives, private schools, grammar schools, schools with and without sixth forms, specialist status schools and city academies. The 2007 champions were Kenny Nicoll and Netan Dogra from Grove Academy, a comprehensive in Dundee.
The Schools Mace is open to all schools in England and Scotland. A separate national competition is run in Wales by CEWC-Cymru, and the winners from that competition, and a sister competition in Ireland, meet the ESU’s winners from England and Scotland in the International Final of the ESU Schools Mace later in the year.
How to enter
The online application process is now closed. However, if you download and print out the entry form, fill it in and return it to us at the address on the form, we will try to find a place for you. Entry to the competition will be at the discretion of the organisers.
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Links and downloads referred to in the competition handbook:
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