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SSIDC Is the Body Which Is Responsible for the Organisation of A 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. 1 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland Table of Contents 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 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 2 3 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland Our Patron 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 High School of Dundee 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. World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 4 1 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland Our Lord Provost John Letford Letters of Support World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 2 3 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 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) World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 4 5 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 6 7 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 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 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 8 9 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland Our City 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 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland 10 11 World Schools Debating Championship 2011 • Dundee Scotland Academic Excellence 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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