Article Date: 08 December 2014
Article Date: 08 December 2014
Year 12 Model United Nations activities which have been running during TP1 concluded with our mock UN General Assembly (World Parliament) on Thursday 4 December. Students had spent time researching and planning persuasive presentations for their proposed Resolutions to global issues.
The country with the most committees represented was Brazil (also known as Ms Shepherd’s Tutor Group - 12O).
Joe Scotting on behalf of the Education Committee, proposed the Resolution that the UN should donate money to support the education system in Brazil and reduce illiteracy. All delegates voted and this resolution was agreed. Other Resolutions proposed by Committees from Brazil included the Environment Committee asking for UN support to reduce the loss of the Amazon Rainforest and the Political and Human Rights Committee highlighting the frequent killing of civilians by Brazilian police officers. The Economic and Financial Committee asked that the UN should provide advisors and monitors to help Brazil prioritise expenditure away from the military and towards helping the ordinary people and reducing corruption.
Other countries represented were India, Russia and Finland. The Education Committee of Finland’s resolution (presented by Bastian Stones) that the world share Finland's educational expertise; ensuring all teachers had Masters degrees, students started school at the age of 7 and had no testing at all until the age of 16. This proved popular with the student delegates – but was not quite so well received by the teaching staff.
