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Bill: Education Support Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Democratic Party
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 2369
Description[?]:
| This bill would allow our citizens to partake in higher forms of education. It is detrimental to our nation's eductational standards to not allow and have colleges and universities, for example. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government does not maintain any forms of higher education.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities nationwide.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Current: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Proposed: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: Pre-school education is private, but the government covers the schoolcosts of poor families.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:39:07, March 05, 2007 CET | From |  Scientific Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Education Support Act |
| Message | Free market laissez-faire the government's job is to defend it's people and that's it and so on and so forth. This always-say-why-you're-voting-no agreement seems to have resulted in an enormous amount of repetition on our part. We may begin just putting a link to a definition of 'libertarian', except that would be silly. Right, and repeated use of the phrase 'yadda yadda yadda' isn't silly. |
| Date | 19:34:31, March 06, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Education Support Act |
| Message | This makes no sense. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 200 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 280 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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