Sentence examples for skills debate from inspiring English sources

Within Higher Education, the skills debate has prompted an examination of how students manage their own learning, and skills development initiatives encourage learners to seek ways of filling gaps in their knowledge and experience.

These days, running for president has also become a marathon test of an altogether different skill: debating.

The British prime minister invariably has served for many years in Parliament and has developed skills in debate and in political negotiation.

Mr. Gore honed his skills in debate practice with his friend Tom Downey, the former Congressman from Long Island, standing in for Mr. Bradley.

What counts is ability and merit combined with the skills to debate fiercely in parliament and stem tears in a surgery.

The reform movement in the Commons was led by John Pym, a minor Somerset landowner, who was prominent by his oratorical skills in debate and his political skills in committee.

Others, distracted by the student militancy of the decade, found out too late that the radical's skills of debate, polemic or protest were not exactly those required for dogged scholarship, or by a state system.

What's lost in the national skills gap debate, she said, is how integrated employment issues are.

While participants and admirers believe that this evolution was empowering by fostering turbo-charged critical thinking skills, current debate practices are often viewed with incomprehension by outsiders (as this recent segment with journalist Mo Rocca on CBS attests).

He would later use his Wiley-honed skills in debates against Malcolm X, an unflinching orator.

The class on which this book is based is probably great fun, and students may sharpen some lawyerly skills by debating things like the bloody glove at Simpson's trial.