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A group of 120 students and their 30 year old chemistry teacher Giovanni Cogollo made a record breaking attempt of continuous teaching class for 72 hours. The students belong to Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo school in Turbaco, in the province of Bolivar, Columbia.

Now students and their teacher wants it to be officially recognized as a Guinness record for longest non-stop teaching class. The original purpose of this attempt was to help collect fund for charity to medical institute for treatment of 70 children suffering from cancer.

During the attempt students were allowed to take 5 minutes break after every 1 hour, but the children decided to take breaks in longer periods, which helped them in achieving this record.

Popular British national debating competition “Debating Matters”, a creation of Institute of Ideas, Britain will be introduced in India, in the form of localized version of “Debating Matters”.

The competition will give chance to students of high school to show their oratory and logic building skills. In September, British council will invite applications for online debating competition from schools across the country. After screening, six schools will be selected for the initial round of competition.

The students who will clear the initial round, will get the chance of going to UK for taking part in live debating competition. Eventually, the debating competition will be developed as localized version of the competition on Indian television. Several schools have already confirmed their participation and have prepared the list of their students. The institute will use all the local resources from schools and universities to make this debating competition a big success in coming days.