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Bill: Higher Education Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Party
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: May 3063
Description[?]:
| To bring the benefits of the free market to higher education. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
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 2
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:26:39, January 17, 2011 CET | From | Crown Loyalist Party | To | Debating the Higher Education Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We agree that the government should not fully subsidise education, and that private institutions should be able to coexist. |
| Date | 13:44:58, January 18, 2011 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Higher Education Reform Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, we support this Bill as it stands. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 290 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 101 |
| Random fact: Players have a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to be accurate when communicating the rules to other players. Any player who manipulatively misleads another player about the rules will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights |