Al-Taqwa Institute of Higher Education Establishes Debate Club!
ATIHE is pleased to announce the establishment of the Debate Club as part of the university’s commitment to enhancing its students’ involvement in co-curricular & extra-curricular activities. Building and having debating skills for the students are pretty much important, most importantly in the classrooms where they can improve their ability to learn basic critical thinking and presentation skills in a way that other forms of skills can’t match up with. Classroom debates can train students and people in general about rational thought, community and cultural understanding, customs and manners, set of thoughts, influencing ability, and the main element of public speaking. Debating skills encourage students and people to mature into more confident and bold people and will assist the students to acquire a political identity or personal identity of their own like a debater.
Debate students excel in written and oral communication and greatly improve their reading comprehension most importantly, debaters become self-directed learners and continue to learn throughout their lives. Debate teaches students to recognize how others think which improves their ability to cooperate and resolve conflicts. In addition, through debate debaters acquire unique educational benefits as they learn and polish skills far beyond what can be learned in any other setting. It instills in debaters a great sense of confidence and self-esteem. It teaches them the skills of researching, organizing, and presenting information in a convincing manner.
The Debate Club at Al-Taqwa Institute of Higher Education is mainly focusing on introducing students to the United Kingdom (UK) parliamentary debating style and helps them build strong argument skills through which they can gain confidence in public speaking. The Club has selected its president, vice president, and four members from both faculties (Faculty of Economics & Faculty of Law and Political Science) through a clear and transparent election process.
The president of the club has already initiated making connections with the other debate clubs and debate organizations to work more on the sessions and train the debaters and keep them updated on the British Parliamentary Debate skills and techniques. The Debate Club holds multiple sessions internally and outside the university. These sessions are to help the debaters to interact with other debaters from outside the university and increase their knowledge and self-confidence which is a key skills in debating. The club has been engaged in taking various debating initiatives both with national and international partners to make the club much stronger and become capable of competing at the national and international platforms.
So, we call upon all interested students to reach out and join this fascinating journey where they can enjoy taking part in different debating activities throughout their university life at the Al-Taqwa Institute of Higher Education.
