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Bill: Education Reform (2529)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Normand Pluralist 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: June 2530
Description[?]:
| The significant regional traditions and customs of Sekowo must be preserved! Centralizing these matters destroys diversity and increases bureaucratic waste. Additionally, to reduce government spending dramatically, we propose that the government give means-tested loans for education. This would enable those who become wealthy after their education to pay back the government when (and only when) they can afford to. Those who remain below a certain income for their entire lives will not be required to pay back the loan. Means-tested loans in this fashion are ideal for several reasons, particularly: 1. It provides the government with a source of income to partially offset education expenditures. 2. It encourages competetive pricing at universities, reducing extravagant university expenditures (fewer cocktail parties on the government's dollar). 3. It encourages students to be more serious about their education (as they realize that they are paying for it, or will be eventually) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Current: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Proposed: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:11:57, February 10, 2008 CET | From | Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance | To | Debating the Education Reform (2529) |
| Message | 2. we oppose the bill entirely because of this. Student's cannot work full time, as they must attend class, and thus many of them will be unable to support themselves while studying, unless tutition is subsidized. |
| Date | 11:28:34, February 10, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Education Reform (2529) |
| Message | Pay attention! This would IN NO WAY require students to work while attending school. Students would only have to pay back the loans AFTER they gained a substantial income. |
| Date | 12:16:28, February 10, 2008 CET | From | Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance | To | Debating the Education Reform (2529) |
| Message | Appologies for not explaining our opposition properly. We are against sadeling students, our best and brightest, with large loans, just for an education. Pricing university education is a deterent against people attending. we should be encouraging as many people as possible to attend OOC: my opposition to this is based on living in New Zealand, where just such a system exists. It has lead to profiteering from universitys, a MAJOR brain drain (33,000 people left the country to live in Australia last year alone) and things like that. It is a VERY flawed idea in practice |
| Date | 12:58:21, February 10, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Education Reform (2529) |
| Message | [Is university free in Australia?] |
| Date | 16:21:24, February 10, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Education Reform (2529) |
| Message | While we'd support lowering the subsidation, we don't support the other clauses dealing with localization. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 251 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 499 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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