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Bill: Competitive Education Act - Universities
Details
Submitted by[?]: Radical 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: January 2607
Description[?]:
A new direction for the personal bearing of the weight of university costs, to combat growing 'grade inflation' and the ready availability of 'soft' degrees financed by state money. Scholarships are an excellent way of increasing competition, and ensuring that the best people are rewarded for hard work. The opposition may claim that this will discourage candidates from poorer families from applying, but the availability of scholarships allows them a great help if they are good enough standing. This is not a war on broken families, but a war on grade inflation and government waste. Sylvia Hirst Education and Culture Minister |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Current: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 21:18:57, July 15, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the Competitive Education Act - Universities |
Message | We are not against government subsidized loans, but we believe it to be very much in our interest economically speaking to insure that qualified students are not barred from attending college simply for financial reasons. Furthermore, this does nothing to increase the "competitiveness" of education, it only increases the socio-economic discrimination of education. Daunte woodson Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes |
Total Seats: 223 | ||||
no |
Total Seats: 241 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 37 |
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