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Bill: Tuition Fees Act 4385
Details
Submitted by[?]: Labour 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 4386
Description[?]:
| An Act to reintroduce tuition fees for university students earning above 24,000 MRD |
Proposals
Article 1
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 subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:09:06, April 29, 2018 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Act 4385 |
| Message | "Mr. Speaker, "It costs nearly 50bn MRD to fund university tuition for everyone. It is putting needless strain on our education budget for purely ideological purposes. Some say that education is a right. I agree, but the state shouldn't fund gender studies classes for some rich kid in Rechtenburg, or things like that" *Chuckles from SP Benches* "This will save us over 25bn MRD while making sure that working-class students still have a chance of university education I have no doubt that the Greens will oppose this, despite all the reasons I have given, but, then again, you can't expect fiscally responsible policies from a bunch of closeted Metzists" *Laughter from SP Frontbenches, with Shocked Gasps from the Backbenches* - Elijah Spring, Prime Minister and Imperial-Seal Bearer of Mordusia, Leader of the Socialist Party, MP for Port Saint-John OOC: Sorry Greens, I have to grandstand, this is nothing personal |
| Date | 15:07:19, April 29, 2018 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Act 4385 |
| Message | BREAKING: The Government has just announced that non-citizens will no longer be entitled to free tuition, regardless of their economic situation, in order to meet their 1% budget surplus target |
| Date | 00:10:33, April 30, 2018 CET | From | National Movement | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Act 4385 |
| Message | We welcome the news that non-citizens will no longer be entitled to free tuition, although we have to ask why it was that this was ever granted in the first place? Mordusia is not a charity. We would prefer a system where students start to pay back the cost of their tuition after their earnings have exceeded a certain amount. Frederick Manningham-Buller Chairman of the National Movement |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 147 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 162 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 51 |
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