We at ESU Scotland are very excited at being given the opportunity to host the next World Members’ Conference in Edinburgh in September 2008.
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The Scottish section of the ESU John Smith Memorial Mace is organised
by ESU Scotland.
This is the oldest and most prestigious debating intervarsity
competition in Europe, featuring over one hundred and fifty teams.
Former winners include the late Donald Dewar, Charles Kennedy MP, Bob
Marshall-Andrews MP, The Rt. Hon the Lord Hunt of Wirral, Professor
Anthony Clare, and the late Labour leader, John Smith, in whose honour
the competition was renamed in 1995
This is the oldest and most prestigious debating intervarsity debating
competition in Great Britain and Ireland, and we are delighted that
Baillie Gifford,
the Edinburgh-based investment managers, have agreed to continue their
sponsorship of the Scottish and English legs of the 2007/8 Mace, along
with the International Final (this year to be held in England).
The Final of the Scottish Mace this year took place on the 25th May at
The Playfair Library, Edinburgh University. In a close debate, St.
Andrews University (Cochrane & Grieve) won and will represent
Scotland at the International Final on 25th April 2008.
Scottish universities have an enviable record in this competition, with
twenty victories in the 50 years of the competition.
Fifteen of these victories were achieved by the Glasgow University
Union. No other university has won more than six times.
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