In Education

A true education is about far more than just learning facts from books and repeating them come the time of examinations, and the best educators have always know this. Education, in its truest sense, is about preparing our young people for the world that awaits, equipping them to face the challenges ahead, and giving them the platform from which they can reach new heights and seize new opportunities. In order to achieve this, we must focus on the installation and development of core skills, which are transferrable and adaptable to all walks of life, and whatever may lie ahead.

Debate is central to these skills, teaching as it does identification, formation and development of arguments, appropriate manners of response, and the ability to evaluate critically the vaule of others' positions, as well as how to spot flaws in their making. As a consequence, schools and university competitions are growing in number and popularity all the time, and an ever-larger proportion of employers is seeing the value and importance of recruiting new staff who already possess these skills. Stylus Communication is able to provide debate training for schools, student groups, and individuals who wish to improve their skills and practice them in a competitive arena. All training packages are designed with teachers and trainers to ensure they are tailored to meet individual needs and objectives.

Short (half- and one-day) workshops are available, as well as longer, more academic courses, and each includes a workpack for participants, classes and group work. Courses can be tailored around:

  • Competitive debating: role fulfilment; motions and definitions for debate; model building; effective opposition; hierarchical argumentation; extensions; stakeholder analysis; style and rhetoric; judging
  • Educational debating: open forum debate; research; use of authorities; debating games
  • Debate across the curriculum [teachers/coaches only]: looking at ways in which debate can be used as a teaching/classroom method for the teaching of science, literature, history, etc.
  • Critical Thinking

Longer academic courses are available in:

  • Philosophy
  • Political Theory
  • Communication Theory
  • IB Theory of Knowledge
[Note: shorter courses may be combined to provide extended programmes, and longer courses can be adapted to a shorter format if required. Please be aware that not al aspects may be covered in the same detail in the shorter forms.]

As a compliment to these, Stylus also offers Lateral Thinking short (half-day) workshops, again including workpack for participants, lectures and group work. Areas covered include:
  • Origins of lateral thinking
  • Benefits of lateral thinking
  • Uses for lateral thinking in business (and in life)
  • Practical examples and lateral thinking games.
As an educational institution, make sure you are preparing your students for what lies ahead, and are equipping them with tools that will serve them throughout their lives. Make the right decisions, and help your students make the right choices, with Stylus. Contact us now to find out how.



When I was eighteen, my father knew nothing;

by the time I was twenty, I was amazed how much he had learnt in two years.

Mark Twain