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Bill: Higher Education
Details
Submitted by[?]: Bicky Forever - MSCC
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 2693
Description[?]:
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 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 does not allow private higher education institutions.
Current: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Proposed: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:46:20, January 03, 2009 CET | From |  New Democratic Party | To | Debating the Higher Education |
| Message | Privatising higher education is an extremely bad move. Universities are for education and research and must not be influenced by private interests which may have their own agendas. Furthermore, unless it is free for anyone who can qualify for admission it will be an inherently unfair system and contribute to inequality in our nation, since post-secondary education makes a great difference in the pay and social mobility of an individual. It is a duty of the government to properly fund educational institutions and guarentee that anyone who qualifies to attend can attend. To do otherwise is unfair and wastes our people's potential. |
| Date | 17:25:29, January 06, 2009 CET | From | Bicky Forever - MSCC | To | Debating the Higher Education |
| Message | The same logic is suitable to public universities: they must not be influenced by state interests. And about inequality: our Gini-coefficient isn't lowered after a period of communism. |
| Date | 11:57:45, January 07, 2009 CET | From | New Democratic Party | To | Debating the Higher Education |
| Message | In a case where state power is subject to democratic accountability, such as here, it is far more preferable than private interest which can be completely unaccountable if it so wishes. I doubt the economic stats are fully functional. However, if inequality stays the same while we are deliberately trying to lower it, what do you expect will happen if we stop caring about it or trying to do anything about it? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 322 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 378 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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