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Bill: Education, Education, Education.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Likaton Coalition of the Willing
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2364
Description[?]:
| The LITP propose educational reform. 1. Full-time education should continue until age 21, unless the pupil has either accepted an apprenticeship with a recognised employer, or has passed a national qualification standard, to be reviewed yearly by the Education Ministry. 2. Further education should not be provided by the market. 3. Whilst encouraging creativity, standardised testing should provide the benchmark of education. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The age until which students, if education were to be compulsary, are required to be educated (limited between 16 and 21).
Old value:: 18
Current: 21
Proposed: 21
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are partially exempt.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:51:23, February 22, 2007 CET | From | Civil Liberties Party | To | Debating the Education, Education, Education. |
| Message | Article 1: 21 is a bit too old; by 21 people should be on to college or simply getting on with their lives. Article 2: Through high school there should be no private schools because our children should have equal opportunities. However, after 18, you are not longer a child, you are now considered an adult in Likatonia, and, therefore, you may go to a private institution of higher learning if you wish to. Article 3: We have argued against this before. It advocates conformity over individuality and as such can not be supported by this party in any way. So we have no choice but to vote no to this bill. |
| Date | 00:04:41, February 23, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Education, Education, Education. |
| Message | The CivLibs state our position nicely. A big thing is that college should not be mandatory. Some people, through either hatred of school or a lack of intelligence, are not college material. We could possibly be talked into supporting Article 2, but in general we've always believed in equal opportunity until college, and then allowing private higher education to compete. There is some equal opportunity logic to Article 2, however; and we would be open to persuasion. |
| Date | 19:22:12, February 23, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Education, Education, Education. |
| Message | Once again, a difficult bill to support. The school age... we can see arguments either way. We personally think that for COMPULSARY education it is a little excessive... but then, we'd rather have too many qualified people looking for jobs, than too many unqualified people incapable of attaining them. A thorny position, but one we can accomodate. We are able to offer far more support to the public-education proposal. Where market forces dictate operation of education establishments, students become nothing more than a resource, and an easily replacable one at that. We can get right behind removing the private sector vicissitudes from education. The last article is our problem - we believe it is entirely wrong. Standardised testing has consistently failed to show aptitudes and abilities. The only thing standardised testing measures, is ability to perform in standardised tests. We support, overall, but with strong reservations about article 3. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 73 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 106 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 20 |
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