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Bill: Education Reform (Privatisation) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Liberal Alliance
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: November 2110
Description[?]:
| This bill would privatise our education system, for reasons that I have state numerous times before. It will allow for much better education provision, guaranteed for all. This act will set up the Telamon Education Regulation Agency (TERA) which will oversee these organisations and educational establishments to ensure that the system operates fairly and without bias. It will also operate a central 'needs blind' admissions system to both schools and universities again to ensure the absence of bias and discrimination. Its other role will be to provide funding for those who cannot afford to pay themselves to ensure that education for all is affordable and for the poorest is free. |
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 does not maintain any forms of higher education.
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 public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Proposed: The government does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Proposed: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: 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.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are made to sing the national anthem at the commencement of school each day.
Current: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Proposed: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:16:29, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the Education Reform (Privatisation) Act |
| Message | This will undermine the basic education system that is in place. If people wish to go to a private school, they currently can, for the rest of the population there is a free public system. The current system ensures that regardless of economic situation, each child will recieve the same high quality education. Under this system that can only be an assumption, as the capitalist adege, "you get what you pay for", is now allowed to come into play |
| Date | 21:28:57, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Education Reform (Privatisation) Act |
| Message | We agree with this bill. |
| Date | 11:56:47, September 13, 2005 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Education Reform (Privatisation) Act |
| Message | I'm sorry but the idea that the state can ever afford to provide high quality education is just wrong. State education is always poor and of a low standard when compared with the majority of private schools. |
| Date | 14:39:37, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the Education Reform (Privatisation) Act |
| Message | "I'm sorry but the idea that the state can ever afford to provide high quality education is just wrong. State education is always poor and of a low standard when compared with the majority of private schools." You mean like Sweden and Norway with their 100% literacy rates? |
| Date | 19:20:38, September 13, 2005 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Education Reform (Privatisation) Act |
| Message | Well maybe, but usually if you look at private schools and then at public ones you tend to find that the private ones do better as they are more able to provide better education, the state cannot by itself afford to compete with these and to provide a decent standard of education, it tends to be what one my term 'bogstandard.' The only way around this is to involve the private sector in some capacity or perhaps to have extremely high levels of taxation. Now I don't believe that extremely high levels of taxation are viable or beneficial and as in this game there is no real possibility of public-private partnerships and other such schemes it has to be all or nothing and I know which one I go for |
| Date | 19:51:16, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the Education Reform (Privatisation) Act |
| Message | I don't find that true, normally, private schools that have comparable costs to publicly owned systems provide comparable educational services. ie. Catholic vs. Public highschools |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 126 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 129 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players have a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to be accurate when communicating the rules to other players. Any player who manipulatively misleads another player about the rules will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist." - Nikita Khrushchev |