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Bill: Higher Education Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Conservative Party (ACN&IA)
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: July 2929
Description[?]:
| Everyone should have the chance to get a higher education. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of universities nationwide.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:07:44, April 25, 2010 CET | From | Constitutionalist Imperial League (IA) | To | Debating the Higher Education Reform |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We oppose and must protest that this is in direct violation of the education compromise we reached with the LCP. I yield. |
| Date | 20:29:45, April 25, 2010 CET | From | Democratic Progressive Alliance (IA) | To | Debating the Higher Education Reform |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Even though we support these measures, we did manage to get a compromise that allowed government subsidization of higher education tuition. Thus, to not threaten any other areas of compromise, we will abstain. I yield |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 63 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 81 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 56 |
| Random fact: Information about the population of each country can be found on the Population Information thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8663 |
| Random quote: "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." - Thomas Jefferson |