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Bill: Access to Higher Education
Details
Submitted by[?]: LibCom 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: November 2067
Description[?]:
| Since we already require education to the age of twenty, we must provide the infrastructure to enable our youth to be educated in Malivia. Tuition will be fully subsidised for any course of study undertaken at any Malivian institution by any Malivian citizen or permanent resident. In cases where a particular field of study is not available within Malivia, funding may be provided for students to study abroad, at the discretion of the Ministry of Education. |
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 Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Current: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Proposed: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:41:37, June 10, 2005 CET | From |  Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Access to Higher Education |
| Message | what were the other options for this one? |
| Date | 12:42:38, June 10, 2005 CET | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Access to Higher Education |
| Message | we meant the second part. also, we support the first one, but the second may not work with us. |
| Date | 23:14:12, June 11, 2005 CET | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Access to Higher Education |
| Message | The other options for tuition are: * The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs. * The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor. We might consider the second of these, but we'd prefer to subsidise tuition for all. |
| Date | 01:34:55, June 13, 2005 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Access to Higher Education |
| Message | The LP agrees with the proposal as it stands. |
| Date | 02:19:00, June 13, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Access to Higher Education |
| Message | We should add the proviso to this bill that the government will only subsidize tuition to schools in Malivia; we don't feel like sending money to the educational institutions of other nations when that money could go to funding our own academics. |
| Date | 10:35:09, June 13, 2005 CET | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Access to Higher Education |
| Message | agreed on that count. |
| Date | 11:26:47, June 13, 2005 CET | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Access to Higher Education |
| Message | Yes, except in cases where we lack the relevant expertise in Malivia. Those cases are probably rare though, given our immigration policies. |
| Date | 18:19:19, June 15, 2005 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Access to Higher Education |
| Message | We disagree with the only paying for in Malivia schools, we should support our population's attempt for the best education available. Why limit their opportunities if our schools are not the best, we should help them achieve the best. Otherwise we agree. |
| Date | 00:29:57, June 16, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Access to Higher Education |
| Message | Once again, the PP's logic is like following a snake. If we do subsidize a student's education, and they want to go overseas, then the money that we would use to develop our own education system goes to another country rather than staying at home. Recognizing that there are some fields of study we will need to develop, sending money overseas drains the funding we would use to create new programs. How is this productive? All it would do is cement our dependance on other nations for what we should be providing for ourselves. |
| Date | 13:45:33, June 16, 2005 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Access to Higher Education |
| Message | So we sacrifice these students for the future ones. If we we do send them overseas the majority return home and become the professors of tomorrow, thus we are investing in our schools. However since the funding is at the discretion of the Ministry of Education, we will support since we feel the programs where it is needed the most will get funding. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 94 | ||||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 6 |
| Random fact: It is not allowed to call more than 5 elections in 5 game years in a nation. The default sanction for a player persisting in the early election tactic will be a seat reset. |
| Random quote: "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." - Woodrow Wilson |