Debates Results: Ayes 70 | Noes: 230 | Abstain: 128
Pre Debate Poll
Aye: 35%
No: 51%
Abstain: 14%
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Proposition
1. Aatif Hassan:
Aatif Hassan is the Chairman and Founder of the Cavendish Education Group, a grouping of schools that focus on supporting neurodivergent students and those with additional needs. He was recently awarded the Freedom of the City of London for services to education
and is also the Chairman of Dukes Education.
2. John Southworth
3. Roshan Ghandi:
Roshan Ghanid is CEO of City Montessori School in Lucknow, India. It is the largest school in the world with over 58,000 students across 19 campuses. A graduate of Oxford and UCL, he speaks extensively on education and the role technology can play.
Opposition
1. Professor Francis Green:
Francis Green is a Professor of Work and Education Economics at UCL. His work focuses on private schooling, skills and the quality of work, and he has recently published papers on the access to private schools and the impact of lockdowns on school children. In 2019, Professor Green co-authored Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem in which he argues that private schools undermine social mobility, meritocracy and democracy.
2. Robert Verkaik:
Robert Verkaik is the author of “Posh Boys, How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain”. He argues that the educational system has led a privately educated elite to govern Britain and more widely critiques the lack of social mobility. He is also an award winning journalist, writing for The Guardian, The Independent, and The Sunday Times.
3. Student Speaker
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