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Bill: Comprehensive Education Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberale Partij (L)
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: December 2596
Description[?]:
| A bill to privatise the communist system of education organisation and financing, so it can be competitive again. |
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 leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
Proposed: The government leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
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 provides local governments with funding to operate higher educational institutions.
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 fully subsidizes tuition.
Current: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Article 4
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 development of nurseries to the private sector.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:27:41, June 24, 2008 CET | From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Comprehensive Education Reform |
| Message | Athlorcaen cannot by any chance, give up on the social welfare. Giving the responsability of higher education to local governments and the introduction of loans has too much cost for our fellow citizen. The People's Freedom Party will definitely reject this proposal The SG, Martinez |
| Date | 20:19:06, June 24, 2008 CET | From | Liberale Partij (L) | To | Debating the Comprehensive Education Reform |
| Message | Yet it has called itself the people's progressive party, and is voting for it? OOC what's with all the new parties suddenly? Welcome? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 66 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 68 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 41 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - John Maynard Keynes |