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Bill: Educational reforms I
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party for Equality
Status[?]: passed
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: January 2111
Description[?]:
| We are a rich country. We can afford to make education, something that everybody should be entitled to, free at primary levels, and to subsidise it higher up. |
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 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 fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
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 4
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 and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:04:01, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Educational reforms I |
| Message | We feel we can support this bill, as long as the government does not atempt to polticize education by introducing 'citizenship' lessons. |
| Date | 13:21:22, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Educational reforms I |
| Message | nope, wouldnt dream of doing that. no propoganda allowed in our schools! |
| Date | 13:27:06, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Educational reforms I |
| Message | And as long as we reatin corporal punishment, d'oh, just read the OTHER Education Bill. |
| Date | 22:49:20, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Educational reforms I |
| Message | I knew separating them was a good idea! |
| Date | 15:46:06, September 12, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Educational reforms I |
| Message | Well we respect the intentions of the current administration to keep propaganda out of the school systems, we are concerned that a future administration would not have the same hands off policy. Once you let the government provide financial support, it is only a matter of time before the curriculum is dictated by them as well. Secondly, it is unfair competion to the private sector to allow government run schools to have an effectivly unlimited revenue source, our taxes, and let them compete against private institutions. Keep the voucher system to ensure that pook students can have the proper education, but let the private sector deliver it. |
| Date | 17:19:11, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Educational reforms I |
| Message | We are never going to give schools 'unlimited revenue'. In fact it is likely that the private schools will be rather better funded. We feel that all students should be entitled to a free education, not just the poorer ones - otherwise the level of schooling recieved by children depends on their parents priorities, as well as the middle class families with lots of kids struggling to afford fees. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 243 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 18 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 14 |
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