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New on The Great Debate website
Edited videos of two debates held in March as part of the day workshop on
Developing World Challenges. Simply click on the images.
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Breaking News
The Great Debate is very pleased to announce that
The Great Northern Debate has been recognised by the
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies as a Regional Centre of
Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development project. Thanks to everyone
who has been involved in our Development, Sustainability and Environment
series over the last five years for helping to make this happen.
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Welcome to The Great Debate website.
The Great Debate is the overarching title for a series of courses,
day schools, public discussions and workshops on topics
including Darwinism, human nature, the human mind,
consciousness, development, sustainability and environmental
thought.
The Great Debate is committed to education, discovering knowledge and
developing informed opinion through discussion and research.
The Great Debate is organised by director and chair
Caspar Hewett,
co-director and treasurer Dave O'Toole
and the team:
Jon Pugh,
Mo Lovatt
and Jon Bryan.
The Great Debate website includes listings of events,
articles, reviews and useful links to other sites.
We hope that you will find our website to be a useful resource.
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The Great Debate is a North East partner of the National Institute of Ideas
Debating Matters Competition. Click
Here for further details.
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Previous contributors to The Great Debate have included
Susan Blackmore,
Christopher Badcock,
Rita Carter,
Frank Furedi,
David Glass,
Sir Bernard Ingham,
Kenan Malik,
Matt Ridley and
Raymond Tallis.
Previous events
have been organised in association with RSA,
Newcastle's Centre for Lifelong
Learning, Newcastle University,
Discovery Museum and
the Institute of
Ideas.
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