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Bill: National Education System
Details
Submitted by[?]: Realists 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: October 3314
Description[?]:
| Apr 3313 |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government does not maintain any forms of higher education.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities nationwide.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges 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 public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Proposed: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:11:23, June 02, 2012 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Union | To | Debating the National Education System |
| Message | The DSU would support this. |
| Date | 23:56:08, June 02, 2012 CET | From | Agrarian Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the National Education System |
| Message | The Conservative Party has supported this legislation in the past. However, she will only be prepared to support it if the rest of the education sector is privatized. |
| Date | 23:57:50, June 02, 2012 CET | From | Social Progressive Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the National Education System |
| Message | We would like more of a discussion about how the Republic will pay for this. We were able to pay for the public primary and secondary education by eliminating the voucher system for private schools. But this may put too much of a burden on the Republic's revenue base, and we are interested in cutting taxes, not increasing them. We are also interested in creating efficient usage of the funds we do collect, and this may be the opposite of that. Perhaps the Realists will offer more of a description for how this program can be paid for. Without a convincing argument, the NPP will have to oppose, though we tend to support the expansion of publicly funded education. We have been very cautious about handling the public till. We won't reverse course on that now, just because the leftists are the majority in the Republic. |
| Date | 23:59:03, June 02, 2012 CET | From | Social Progressive Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the National Education System |
| Message | As for privatizing the rest of the education system, the NPP will always oppose that. Basic education is a right, college education is not always necessary, especially for those who do not seek to learn liberal arts. |
| Date | 00:03:28, June 03, 2012 CET | From | Agrarian Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the National Education System |
| Message | Where does it say that basic education is a "right", dear colleague? In your party program, perhaps? Ah, dear Sirs, Madams, let us not fall into an ideological dispute. We merely suggested that we would support this if we would privatize the rest of the damn sector - giving us the hard denarii needed for the measures proposed here. |
| Date | 04:55:16, June 03, 2012 CET | From | Social Progressive Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the National Education System |
| Message | If it is simply a matter of economics, we would rather spend the money educating the youth than college students. The right to be free of ignorance is a human right. But then again, human rights are the stuff for debate. So, in terms of brass tax, we get more bang for the buck, so to speak, by putting money into primary and secondary education. |
| Date | 15:31:15, June 04, 2012 CET | From | Social Progressive Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the National Education System |
| Message | We have to vote against this bill. We tend to support higher education, but don't support a full nationalization of it. Not all universities should be public, and those that do exist should be merit based universities, with the worst education being offered by the private schools. Until the bill creates that system and public universities are used for the betterment of the Republic, the NPP cannot support a blanket nationalization of the Higher education system. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 156 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 594 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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