2013 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 19 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Institutions in crisis? Cinema 2
Great leaders: born or made?
School Fights Frobisher 1-3
Arts in schools: luxury or necessity?
Saturday 19 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
School Fights Frobisher 1-3
History wars
Saturday 19 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
School Fights Frobisher 1-3
One to one tuition in the dock? The crisis in music schools
Saturday 19 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
School Fights Frobisher 1-3
Private education: public harm?
Saturday 19 October: 5.30pm-6.45pm
Battle for our minds Pit Theatre
The new sex education: colonising our children's emotions?
Battle for technological progress Frobisher 1-3
Laptop University? The future of HE

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"Battle of Ideas could be called Search for Truth. Mundane consensus and conventional wisdom are the enemies of truth. Happily, neither of those are available at the Battle."
George Pitcher, journalist; Anglican priest, St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

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