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Bill: Higher Education Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jelbénkai Utrji Spjogad
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 3508
Description[?]:
| Access to Higher Education should be a right, not a privilege, and more and more people should be encouraged to seek higher education and vocational qualifications throughout their life, no matter how old or experienced they may be. In order to create a more educated and more prosperous society, we need to open up access to higher education for all, with fully subsidized tuition for students at a new range of public universities that we plan to construct across the Empire. Yet we should also not discourage the development of a private sector in higher education, and our reforms intend to allow private corporations to establish their own universities and schools by allowing them the power of self-regulation. I feel this approach establishes a balanced approach to higher education , with free, public institutions sitting alongside, and working with, the private sector to further the education of our people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government leaves the development and funding of vocational schools and colleges up to local governments.
Current: The government leaves the development and funding of vocational schools and colleges up to local governments.
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 provides local governments with funding to operate higher educational 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 3
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Current: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 104 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 196 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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