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Bill: Tested loans for higher education tuition
Details
Submitted by[?]: Aliojin Party SC
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: March 2111
Description[?]:
| Due to the government does not subsidize higher education, low income families have no opportunities to send their sons and daughters to universties and colleges. For that reason, we propose to loan people who have no money to pay their studies. As the money will be back in a mid term future, government money will not declined. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:21:00, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Anarcho-Punks | To | Debating the Tested loans for higher education tuition |
| Message | People should work their way up on their own, not require government assistance. I oppose this bill. |
| Date | 00:38:22, September 14, 2005 CET | From | Union of Progressive Ulama | To | Debating the Tested loans for higher education tuition |
| Message | We will support it: it is onyl loans, and a more educated workforce will make the Sultanate more prosperous. |
| Date | 04:26:26, September 14, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Coalition | To | Debating the Tested loans for higher education tuition |
| Message | We would have liked the 'The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor' option but this gets us closer to that. The PLC will revisit this topic in the future. |
| Date | 05:46:04, September 14, 2005 CET | From | United Socialist of Al'Badara SC | To | Debating the Tested loans for higher education tuition |
| Message | We cant agree becuase loans would create poverty trying to pay them back. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 531 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 219 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Real-life organisations should not be referenced in Particracy, unless they are simple and generic (eg. "National Organisation for Women" is allowed). |
| Random quote: "He who will not economize will have to agonize." - Confucius |