SSIDC is the body which is responsible for the organisation of a Scottish team to participate at WSDC andWorld the Schools lead Debatingbody and organiser for theChampionship 2011 World Schools th th Debating Championship.16 - 26 August 2011 SSIDC recently becomeDundee, a ScotlandLimited Liability Company, whose Directors are Irene McGrath and Malcolm Smart.

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Our Patron 1

Our Lord Provost 2

Letters of Support 3

Our City 11

Academic Excellence 12

Our Host Partnership 14

Our Organising Committee 15

Our Committee Members 16

Our Tournament Schedule 18

Our Accommodation 20

Our Venues 21

Our Social Programmes 24

Our Budget 25

Getting to Dundee 26

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I am honoured to be Patron for Dundee’s bid to host the World Schools Debating Championships in 2011 and I look forward to meeting you during the event.

Brian Taylor is BBC Scotland’s Political Editor He has lectured on politics and identity in and covers Scottish politics for all major media Washington, Stockholm, Madrid, Edinburgh, outlets, including BBC Scotland and UK network London and throughout Germany. programmes. He has also presented Good Morning Scotland and is a regular contributor Born in 1955 in Dundee, he is a former pupil to other BBC programmes. Before joining the of the and graduated BBC, he worked in newspapers for eight years, MA (Honours) in English from the University of including six years as a lobby correspondent at St Andrews in 1977. He received an Honorary Westminster. Doctorate of Letters from Napier University in 2008. He is married with two sons. Brian has written two books on Scotland’s new Parliament and co-written eight more. Among Brian maintains contact with the harsh realities other things, he is the author of The Scottish of Scottish life through passionate support of Parliament (1999): a definitive account of the Dundee United Football Club. Other interests road to devolution and its consequences, now include literature, theatre and golf. republished in revised form. He updated that narrative in Scotland’s Parliament: Triumph and Disaster (2002), in which he analyses the early years of the new Parliament.

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If calling please ask for: Jim Collins 01382 433071 E-Mail [email protected]

Our Ref JC/DD Your Ref Date 22 January 2008

Dear World Debating Community

WORLD SCHOOLS DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIP

Dundee City Council's Education Department warmly welcomes and endorses this bid to host the World Schools Debating Championship in Dundee.

Schools in this city have a proud history and record in the field of debating.

We will welcome with great pleasure participants for this prestigious competition to all our schools, and our pupils will benefit by meeting and observing skilled debaters, by sharing their experiences of Scottish education with their counterparts from around the world, and by developing their skills in global citizenship.

Dundee young people have gone out to all parts of the world and have been successful in their chosen walk of life.

This bid presents a golden opportunity for our young people in 2011 to welcome friends into our city and country.

Yours sincerely

JIM COLLINS Director of Education (Designate)

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ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION SCOTLAND

Mrs Irene M McGrath Chairman, SSIDC 24 Duntrune Terrace Broughty Ferry DUNDEE DD5 1LF

9th January 2009

Dear Irene

World Schools 2011

As previously discussed, I am writing to confirm that ESU Scotland warmly endorses SSIDC’s bid to host the 2011 WSDC in Dundee. We would be delighted to offer any practical and administrative support that we can to ensure that the Tournament runs as smoothly as I am sure it will.

Unfortunately we are unable to promise any specific financial assistance at this stage, as the tournament is still two years away, and, as a small charity with uncertain finances, we cannot commit ESU funds this far ahead. However, I am sure that nearer the time our Scottish National Committee will view any request as sympathetically as our finances then permit.

I very much hope that the bid to host World Schools is successful, and please be assured that you will have the full backing of ESU Scotland when you present your proposal in Athens.

Finally, may I take this chance to wish you all the best for 2009.

With kindest regards

Yours sincerely

John A Duncan Director, ESU Scotland

ESU Scotland, 23 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 8HQ. Telephone 0131 229 1528. Fax 0131 229 1533 E-mail: [email protected] www.esuscotland.org.uk

Patron HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh KG KT: Chairman Jon Dye Scottish Charity No. 000653

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the world’s top seven intelligent communities by an independent US think tank.

The city has a local population of over 143,000 and a travel-to-work population of over 200,000. The population is boosted during Aberdeen academic sessions when over 35,000 people Dundee study either in the city’s two universities, its Islamic and Arabic institutions or its local Glasgow Edinburgh colleges. Education is one of the city’s key sectors, with one in six of the population a registered student - this is one of the highest Manchester ratios in the UK and Dundee has more young people in full-time higher education per head of Birmingham population than any other city in Scotland.

London However, not content to rest on its laurels, the reinvigoration of Dundee as an ideal destination to live, work and visit continues apace. The £270 Dundee is set on the banks of the River Tay. million waterfront development to reconnect Described by actor and raconteur Stephen Fry Dundee city centre with the Tay is one of the as ‘ludicrously ideal’, Dundee offers a peerless most notable forward-thinking projects in quality of life, with more hours of sunshine than Scotland today. any other Scottish city and an abundance of green spaces. Dundee boasts tremendous entertainment and sporting facilities including a highly- Dundee has a long history and has played a pivotal regarded repertory theatre, an award-winning role in the development of Scotland over the contemporary arts centre, award-winning tourist centuries. There has been a settlement here for attractions, an international sports centre, an ice thousands of years and its growing importance arena and two Scottish premier football clubs. was recognised as far back as the 12th Century when King William the Lion made Dundee a Royal The city is well served by pavement cafes and Burgh. Indeed, by the 16th and 17th Centuries cosmopolitan restaurants in the City Centre and it had become one of the wealthiest burghs in the Cultural Quarter. Scotland. A case in point was General Monck’s sacking of the city in 1651 when an escaping Dundee provides an unrivalled quality of life and armada of gold-laden ships was sunk in the Tay will be the ideal location for the 2011 World estuary during a violent storm. Dundee’s growing Schools Debating Championships. status was recognised in 1889 when it was named as a city by Royal Charter. Useful websites:

Modern Dundee is a city of discovery, diversity www.dundeewaterfront.com and dynamism, qualities encapsulated by world- www.dundee.com leading research in the life sciences, a burgeoning www.locate-dundee.co.uk digital media sector, a vibrant arts and cultural www.angusanddundee.co.uk life and a successful local economy which for the www.visitscotland.com second year in a row has been ranked as one of

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Education is vital for the future of Dundee. The The education department’s flagship policy city council is investing over £130 million in ‘Learning Together in Dundee’ is designed to facilities to meet the challenges of the 21st century ensure that pupils can achieve their highest and help even more pupils succeed at school. potential. The city’s schools work with families and a wide range of partners to ensure the best Six new primary and two new secondary schools possible conditions for learning. are being provided through the £90 million Public Private Partnership programme. Technology is an important component in education, and Dundee schools are well- There has also been additional investment resourced with IT hardware which is refreshed of more than £16 million to refurbish two over a 5 year programme. further schools, £15 million to replace the city’s Kingspark special school and over £11 million to construct a new primary.

Further Education

Dundee is increasingly a knowledge-driven Dundee College attract over 40,000 students to economy with key strengths in creative study in the city each year. In addition to this we industries, life sciences and education, attracting have the Al-Maktoum Institute for Islamic and a new generation of professionals to the City. Arabic Studies, and the University of St Andrews is also within a 20-minute drive of Dundee. The foundation for the growth of these new knowledge-based industries lies with the City’s The universities are, in their own right, major two universities and college; University of employers in the City employing over 4000 Dundee, University of Abertay Dundee and academic and support staff.

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Scottish Schools International Debating Council (SSIDC Ltd) Convenor Irene McGrath has been a regular at WSDC since 2003 and has twice been a member of the Chief Adjudicator’s Panel. She manages Team Scotland, is the chair of SSIDC, and is proud to have coached debaters who became sibling world champions at WSDC, in 1999 and 2007. Head of Academic Administration at the High School of Dundee, she has lived in Dundee for … a long time! … and is very happy to welcome you there.

Deputy Convenor Gaynor Sullivan works with Dundee City Council‘s Department Economic Development - she has over 10 years’ experience in organising major events and conferences and was instrumental in organising the Four Nations tournament in Spring 08. She was so impressed with debaters and debating that she is now looking forward to taking on the World!

Chief Adjudicators Beth James first attended WSDC in 2002 as a debater for Team Wales. After university she returned as a member of the organising committee and an adjudicator for Cardiff 2006 and has since become very well-known in the WSDC community. She is Vice President of the WSDC Executive Committee and Chair of the Wales Debating Federation. Beth spent a year working for the ESU, organising their National Schools Mace, and currently works as a public relations consultant for a Welsh youth charity.

Andrew Marshall has reached four semi-finals of World Schools since 1994: twice as a debater and twice as a judge. A former president of the Australian Debating Federation and Chief Adjudicator of Australia’s national schools championships, he recently chaired the ESU English Schools Mace and SSIDC is the body responsible for the In April 2008, as a precursor to the compilation International Schools Mace final panels. Once a distinguished university organisation of a Scottish team to participate at of the bid, SSIDC and Dundee City Council debater for Adelaide and Oxford, he is now a lawyer in the City of London. WSDC and the lead body and organiser for the hosted the annual Four Nations tournament bid to host the 2011 World Schools Debating which has become an established warm-up Director of Education Championship. SSIDC recently became a Limited to WSDC for the four home nations. The Jim Collins is Director of Education at Dundee City Council. Liability Company, whose directors are Irene participants were kind enough to say they He has been Head of Secondary Education with the city council since 2006 and McGrath and Malcolm Smart. The company had hugely enjoyed themselves, confirming before that was the Head of Support for Learning at the authority. secretary is Adam McKinlay, who represented the organisational record, competence and He has worked in education for 33 years and was the Head Teacher of Scotland at WSDC in Singapore and Peru. experience of the organising committee. Monifieth High School between 1994 and 2000. Prior to that, he was the depute head teacher of Forfar Academy and the assistant rector of . Many of the members of SSIDC associated The final was held in Dundee’s historic City with the Dundee 2011 bid are long-standing Chamber, where we propose to hold the members of the World Schools community (see Worlds Council AGM. School Liaison Organisation Committee). They have a great Kenny McKeown is a Quality Improvement Officer with Dundee City deal of experience of previous tournaments and Council’s Education Department and has had close ties with debating over are thrilled to be inviting you all to Scotland. the last few years. He is convinced that the skills young people develop through debating equip them to become confident individuals, effective contributors, responsible citizens and successful learners. Having the best young debaters in the world competing in Dundee will only enhance the value and status of debating to our own young people.

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Cameron Wyllie is known and respected by everyone in the WSDC Richard Wilkins was a member of the team who finished runners–up in community. He has attended numerous tournaments since 1991, the 1992 tournament in London – coached by Cameron. coached Team Scotland for a number of years, sat on many committees and chaired several finals. He will be a member of our Org Comm in an He is a former International Mace winner who was himself the Scotland advisory capacity. coach for three years. He works as a civil servant in Edinburgh.

Malcolm Smart is a native of the county of Angus and has lived and Sarah Jones debated for Scotland at WSDC in Singapore, won the worked in and around Dundee throughout his career. He is Head of the European Masters in 2004, has twice broken as a judge at WUDC and Communications Faculty at Webster’s High School in Kirriemuir. judged the European semi-finals. She organised Oxford Schools in 2002, Malcolm has coached international Mace winners and provided members and was on the org comm for several Oxford IVs. Sarah is deputy head of for the Scottish team, including one of the 2007 world champions. He the Social and Religious Studies faculty at a school in South London. has adjudicated at WSDC in Seoul and Athens.

Janet Stevens is the secretary of SSIDC and is Deputy Head of St Scott Ralston was a member of Team Scotland at WSDC Athens and is Columba’s School near Glasgow. Her first experience of judging at now studying Law with European Studies at Brasenose College, Oxford. WSDC was in Athens. She has had years of success at coaching school A former pupil of the High School of Dundee, he is a native of the city debaters and two of her pupils are members of Team Scotland for Qatar. and excited about welcoming the WSDC community to his home turf. Scott will be answering phone calls and e-mails in the weeks immediately prior to the tournament.

Adam McKinlay was a member of the Scottish team which finished 3rd in Singapore in 02 and famously then became one of the reasons for the genesis of The Stockley Document. He also spoke in Peru when Scotland again finished 3rd and he was 8th on the Speaker tab. Now a lawyer in Edinburgh, he is Treasurer of SSIDC Ltd and currently joint coach of Team Scotland. We also have a considerable group of a number of WSDC alumni and former Scottish debaters who are very keen to turn up and help if their circumstances permit at that time.

Rob Marrs is a project manager based in Edinburgh. He has a degree in Political Science from the University of Glasgow, debated around the world for the Glasgow University Union and wrote the Scottish Government and English-Speaking Union’s ‘Debating In Schools’ materials. He has judged more schools debates than most people have eaten hot dinners.

World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 16 17 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland Our Tournament Schedule Tuesday 16 August Monday 22 August • Arrival Dinner - University of Dundee • Rounds 7 & 8 - Schools • Break Night Party at The Union Wednesday 17 August We are very excited by and eager to present We recognise that, in 2011, this period coincides • Adjudicator Training Tuesday 23 August our bid for Scotland to host WSDC in August with Ramadan. We have discussed this with • Tours of Dundee and surrounding area • Octo-finals - Schools 2011. It will be our great pleasure to show members of Dundee’s Islamic community; you our beautiful country in summer when the visitors will be most welcome at the mosque and • Opening Ceremony hosted by Lord • Afternoon tours temperature is favourable. As will be seen from all efforts will be made to be helpful. Provost John Letford in the McManus • Free evening our letters of support, we have backing from a Galleries variety of bodies, all of whom are committed to With our long-standing record of success at Wednesday 24 August the promotion of a tournament which could bring WSDC, Scotland feels a sense of duty to host Thursday 18 August so many bright young minds to our country. for the first time since 1991. This is the time • Quarter-finals - HM Frigate Unicorn, we can receive you; we hope very much that • Rounds 1 & 2 - Schools RRS Discovery, Dudhope Castle and Scotland has an extremely narrow window of you will want to come and that we may have • BBQ hosted by University of Dundee Al-Maktoum Institute opportunity to host World Schools and after the opportunity to extend to you the warmest • Semi-finals - Dalhousie Building, very careful consideration the dates have been of welcomes. Friday 19 August University of Dundee chosen for several reasons: • Charity Quiz Night at the Union • Rounds 3 & 4 - Schools • we need to use student accommodation • Evening reception hosted by Dundee because of the number of beds required College Thursday 25 August • we are using schools for all the • WSDC Ltd AGM - City Chambers preliminary debates; January and February conflict with the exam period and Scottish Saturday 20 August • Grand Final - University of Dundee Dalhousie Building schools close at the end of June • Round zero George Heriot’s School, • we are hoping to attract a number of Edinburgh • Grand Closing Ceilidh, Caird & Marryat Halls - everyone to wear a alumni to help run the tournament during • Afternoon free in Edinburgh, capital of piece of tartan! their summer leave Scotland • Free evening Friday 26 August Sunday 21 August • Breakfast and Departures • Rounds 5 and 6 - High School of Dundee • Free evening

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Opening Ceremony In 2007, two debaters from Hosted by the Lord Provost John Letford won the International Schools Mace Final in competition against the champions of England, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Ireland and Wales in the House of Lords; later Museum in the year, two Dundee pupils, from Grove and the High School of Dundee, were members of the Scottish team which won the 2007 World Schools Debating Championship in Seoul.

Rounds 1 - 6 & Octo-finals Dundee City Council Education Department Dundee Student Villages The Union is located within the heart of the attractive University campus, which is self- will provide all of their 9 secondary schools and The accommodation for the tournament will be contained with public space, retail and leisure Angus Council, our neighbouring local authority in the University of Dundee student apartments, facilities. The Union is only a 10-minute walk will provide Webster’s High School. Belmont Tower and Seabraes. All bedrooms will from Dundee city centre and adjacent to the • have free access to the internet. city’s popular cultural quarter. • http://www.dusa.co.uk • Belmont Tower • Grove Academy Belmont Tower is located centrally on the main • The Institute of Sport and Exercise campus and is only 5 minutes’ walk from the city • High School centre. It has fifteen self-contained flats. Each (ISE) • Morgan Academy flat has between 6 and 8 bedrooms for single ISE at the University of Dundee provides state- • St John’s RC High School occupancy, each of which has its own en-suite of-the-art facilities for a wide range of sporting • St Paul’s RC Academy shower and toilet. The flats have full central heating. activities. ISE houses a massive 400 sq m gym over two levels, three competition-standard • Webster’s High School, Kirriemuir* glass-backed squash courts, a customised dance The city has invested £11.8m in creating a Museum Seabraes - Flats 1-32 area, a strength performance centre and two for the 21st Century which inspires, educates http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/education/ Seabraes is located 10 minutes’ walk from the new aerobics/exercise studios. There are also and entertains; which brings our Heritage and Art city centre. It has 32 self-contained flats which two large sports halls catering for a wide range alive and secures its conservation; which tells a * Webster’s High School is a 6-year, have seven bedrooms for single occupancy and of sports such as badminton, basketball, netball vivid story of Dundee in the World from earliest comprehensive school, situated in the burgh each bedroom has its own en-suite shower and and volleyball. geological times to our current living memories and of Kirriemuir. Kirriemuir is well known as the toilet. A common room is available on site. which restores the Victorian and Gothic grandeur birthplace of J M Barrie, creator of Peter Pan. This impressive facility is situated alongside of the City’s best loved and most prestigious The school serves an extensive rural area which http://www.dundee.ac.uk/general/campusmap/ Belmont flats, a few minutes from DUSA. building. extends from Glen Isla, Glen Prosen and Glen Clova in the north, to the village of Glamis and http://www.dundee.ac.uk/ise www.mcmanus.co.uk Glen Ogilvy in the south - a distance of 27 miles. Dundee University Student Association The Schools Dundee & Angus Convention Bureau The Union is the private club for members of Online Booking Facility There is a long and proud tradition of debating Dundee University Student Association and will in Dundee schools, with most secondary schools be open to World Schools participants, who will WSDC participants will be able to make use of entering the annual Courier / Chartered Institute have temporary membership. WSDC will have ConferenceBOOKINGS for registration. This of Bankers in Scotland Junior Schools Debating exclusive use of Floor 5 within the Union for the is a web-based-accommodation reservation Competition. duration of the competition. system which will be available in 2011 at www.ConferenceBookings.co.uk

World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 20 21 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland Rounds 7 & 8 Quarter-finals World Council Meeting High School of Dundee HM Frigate Unicorn Dudhope Castle City Chambers

The High School of Dundee is a co-educational HM Frigate Unicorn is the oldest British-built Dudhope Castle, one of Dundee’s oldest buildings school of approximately 1040 pupils which can warship afloat. She was launched in 1824 and has a magnificent location on an escarpment trace its history back to 1239. It occupies a has never fired one of her 46 guns in anger. overlooking the city on the southern face of the complex of buildings in the city centre. Pupils are Dundee Law. The original house was built in the Semi-finals and Grand Final drawn from a large geographical area, with some She is a unique survivor from the brief transitional 13th Century as home of the Scrymageour family Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee travelling from Perthshire, Angus, and Fife. period between the traditional wooden sailing who were appointed Hereditary Constables of ship and the revolutionary iron steamship. Dundee by William Wallace. http://www.highschoolofdundee.co.uk http://www.frigateunicorn.org Al-Maktoum Institute Round Zero George Heriot’s, Edinburgh RRS Discovery

The Dalhousie building is an innovative, landmark building which was opened in July 2007 by Her Majesty the Queen as part of the celebrations to The Institute was established in Dundee in mark the University’s 40th anniversary. 2001 in an old school building, it is a centre of excellence that aims to promote intelligent The building is named after the University’s debate and understanding of Islam and the second Chancellor, Lord Dalhousie, who served role of Muslims in the contemporary world. from 1977 to 1992, and offers one of the most From its beginnings in 1628 to its present in This is the story of Discovery from her beginnings The Institute is actively working to educate the advanced teaching facilities in the country. the 21st Century, George Heriot’s School has in Dundee where she was built in 1901 and next generation of scholars – both nationally served as one of Scotland’s most distinguished Captain Scott’s remarkable Antarctic expedition, and internationally – in the study of Islam and The building houses 4 lecture theatres including schools. Today, it flourishes as an independent through her long ocean-going career until her Muslims to enable them to face the challenges a 350-seater theatre. The lecture theatres can be co-educational day school whose pupils are final journey home. and opportunities of today. linked together through audio-visual technology, drawn from all over the City of Edinburgh and allowing a maximum audience size of 850 people. surrounding districts. Find out about life on board and the essential design features that allowed her to survive the www.dundee.ac.uk http://www.george-heriots.com extreme polar conditions. Explore Discovery for yourself with an area-by-area tour of the ship

http://www.rrsdiscovery.com

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Tuesday 16 August Monday 22 August Expenditure • Arrival Dinner at the University of • Break Night Party at The Union Accommodation £52,800 Dundee Dancing and Karaoke Transport £12,250 Catering £33,539 Miscellaneous £30,139 Wednesday 17 August Tuesday 23 August Contingency £10,000 • Tours of Dundee and surrounding area • Afternoon tours • RRS Discovery • RRS Discovery TOTAL EXPENDITURE £138,728 • Verdant Works • Verdant Works • University Botanic Gardens • University Botanic Gardens Income • Glamis Castle • Glamis Castle 327 Registrations x £400 per person (max)* £130,800 • Arbroath - Abbey and Harbour • Arbroath - Abbey and Harbour Sponsorship* • St Andrews - Abbey and Old • St Andrews - Abbey and Old Course Course Dundee City Council - City Development £5,000 University of Abertay Dundee £3,000 • Opening Ceremony hosted by Lord Hewlett Packard £500 Provost John Letford at the McManus Wednesday 24 August Galleries, Albert Square, Dundee • Charity Quiz Night at The Union TOTAL INCOME £139,300 Thursday 18 August Thursday 25 August • BBQ hosted by University of Dundee • Grand Closing Ceilidh, Caird & Sponsorship In Kind Marryat Halls - everyone to wear a Friday 19 August piece of tartan! • Evening reception hosted by Dundee Dundee City Council College Dundee City Council - Lord Provost’s Civic Reception Education Department - venues and lunch Saturday 20 August Angus Council • Afternoon free in Edinburgh, Capital of Education Department - venue and lunch Scotland • Scottish Parliament • Edinburgh Castle High School of Dundee - venue and lunch

University of Dundee BBQ Quarters and Grand Final venue

Dundee College Evening Reception at Space

* We are energetically engaged in seeking additional public and private sector funding which could enable us to reduce the registration fees from the stated maximum.

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Dundee benefits from a geographically central for a return and can be bought from the location, within a 90-minute drive of 90% of the airport information desks or on the bus Scottish population. Dundee is a main station on itself. This will take you to Edinburgh’s the UK east coast railway line, has an excellent main railway station (Waverley) to board a motorway link,and a thriving regional airport. train to Dundee. • taking a taxi from the taxi rank at Edinburgh Airport also outside the UK Airport Transfers and Ireland arrivals hall. The average fare to the city centre/railway station is £16, The organising committee will arrange airport and most of the taxis are wheelchair transfers to and from the major airports which accessible. For further information on will be arranged around all the arrival and the Edinburgh Airport taxi service call departure flight details. This will be facilitated Executive Onward Travel on via the online booking service. +44 (0)131 333 2255. The following details are appended for those who may wish to arrive earlier or leave later. Getting to Dundee from Glasgow Airport By Air Glasgow Airport is about 20 minutes from the There are direct flights to Dundee from London city centre. You can get a train to Dundee by: City, Belfast & Birmingham. Dundee Airport • taking one of two coaches, the Citylink is situated only 3 miles west of the city centre. or Fairline, to Glasgow’s Queen Street http://www.hial.co.uk/dundee-airport.html Station to board a train to Dundee. Buses run every 10 – 15 minutes during the day and every 30 minutes in the evening Getting to Dundee from Edinburgh (last bus 23:00 – with a journey time of approximately 30 minutes to Queen Airport Street Station). Tickets cost £6.50 for an Edinburgh Airport is 8 miles (12km) from open return ticket. All Citylink buses on Edinburgh city centre. You can get a train to this route are wheelchair accessible. Dundee by: • taking a taxi from the airport to Glasgow • taking the bus into the city departing Queen Street Station - cost approximately from stand 18, outside the UK arrivals £22. The taxi rank is at the front of the hall (operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a building, a short walk from UK arrivals. week, with a journey time of 25 minutes). Tickets cost approx £3 for a single, £5

World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 26 27 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland SSIDC is the body which is responsible for the organisation of a Scottish team to participate at WSDC and the lead body and organiser for the 2011 World Schools Debating Championship. SSIDC recently become a Limited Liability Company, whose Directors are Irene McGrath and Malcolm Smart. For further information please contact: Irene McGrath Scottish Schools International Debating Council The Company Secretary is 24 DuntruneAdam Terrace Broughty Ferry Dundee McKinlay, who represented ScotlandDD5 1LF Email: [email protected] at WSDC in Singapore and Peru.

Scottish Schools International Debating Council

Many ofWorld Schools the Debating Championship names 2011 • Dundee Scotland 28 of the members