2011 Programme: Festival weekend overview

The Festival weekend includes more than 70 debates which are listed below ordered by time slot and room. To see Saturday or Sunday sessions only, select the day you want from the menu on the left or select sessions by Theme.

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Saturday 29 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Provocation Zone Students' Union
Dreaming spires for all? Oxbridge and social mobility
Sunday 30 October: 9.45am-10.30am
Head to Head Debates Henry Moore Gallery
The Simpsons versus Shakespeare
Sunday 30 October: 10.45am-12.15pm
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
What is history education for?
Sunday 30 October: 1.45pm-3.15pm
In Conversation Salons Lecture Theatre 2
Tiger mothers: the great parenting row
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Skilling up the jilted generation: the employability debate
Sunday 30 October: 3.45pm-5.15pm
Frame Debates Henry Moore Gallery
Ain’t misbehaving - do British children need the army to sort them out?

The Battle for Leadership

"I loved the Battle of Ideas, which was mad, wild, and sparky. 2011 looks set to be even better."
Anthony Seldon, master, Wellington College; historian; political commentator

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