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This House would raise the school leaving age to 18 (Junior)

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This house Would Lift the Ban on Ivory Trading

Post date: 26 Jan 2012

In 1930, there were between five and ten million wild African elephants; by 1990, when they were added to the list of critically endangered species, only about 600,000 remained¹. As part of the effort to combat this threat, in 1986, ivory trading was banned by the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

This House believes single-sex schools are good for education

Post date: 17 Apr 2012

Single-sex schools are schools that only admit those of one specific gender, believing that the educational environment fostered by a single gender is more conducive to learning than a co-educational school. Studies conducted have shown that boys gain more academically from studying in co-education schools, but that girls find segregated schools more conducive to achievement.

This House would ban animal testing

Post date: 17 Feb 2012

In this debate testing should be defined as all testing including, medical research, cosmetics, toxicology, and psychology research where animals are used in any part of an experiment. An animal could sensibly be defined as vertebrates.