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Bill: Education Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Workers 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: April 3605
Description[?]:
| In order to ensure that all Tukarali students have the education needed to succeed in a global economy, an overhaul of the education system is necessary. |
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, 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 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.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside unregulated private establishments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is a matter of local governments.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:27:39, December 31, 2013 CET | From | Partido da Social Democracia Tukarêse | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | We're inclined to vote against this bill due to Article 2 (as we believe the nurseries should be regulated) and Article 5 . |
| Date | 10:06:46, January 06, 2014 CET | From | União Democrática do Tukarali | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | "This bill serves as a good illustration of the authoritarian and centralising mindeset under which the so-called Democratic Workers Party operates. Ignoring the obvious reality that people live locally and that local governmejnts are in the best position to assess the educational needs in their locality, the DWP tries to imose a centralised structure with no regard for and no ability to cater for the real needs of the people on our education education system, instead of striving for better coordination within the present system. And to crown it all, they try to squash any private effort to improve education through the means of regulated charter schools by banning them outright." Griselda Lobo, UDT/TDU spokesperson for Education and Culture |
| Date | 10:12:28, January 06, 2014 CET | From | União Democrática do Tukarali | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | OOC: Incidentally, it would be better not to refer to the articles by their number alone, but to mention what those articles are about. The article numbers can appear different to each of us. In my case, the article about nurseries is number 4 (2 is about higher education), and I have no idea which article the PSDT means by Article 5. For me it's called "The education system", but I have my doubts that that is the change to which the PSDT objects). |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 49 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 49 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 27 |
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