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Bill: Higher Education Bill II
Details
Submitted by[?]: Neo-Marxist revolutionary 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: June 2073
Description[?]:
| In order to further our belief that education should be available to all citizens we propose that the goverment should subsidize higher education to a certain degree; thus relieving these potential students and their families of a much larger debt than would be incurred if they were to pay for their entire tuition. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:15:14, June 12, 2005 CET |
From | Libertarian Communist Party | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill II | | Message | We would prefer to see a system where the government provides the costs of tuition and students are admitted solely on academic merit rather than any financial advantage... |
| Date | 12:59:07, June 20, 2005 CET |
From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill II | | Message | I think the PPP's reasoning is that higher education should be free to all. I in fact agree with this. However in reality as I have said earlier:
Until we know the economic state of the country, fully subsidizing education is not feasible. Moreover, it will be difficult to stop Universities from losing money on certain courses believed to be unpopular thus, the courses will shut down even though that course may be required in the long term. |
| Date | 23:21:34, June 21, 2005 CET |
From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill II | | Message | It would be good if "higher education" was more clearly defined. If it means just high schools then they should be payed for by the state up to the age of 16 (at least) because thats how long children have to be educated for. |
| Date | 14:19:25, June 22, 2005 CET |
From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill II | | Message | No higher education means universitys, colleges. A high school as I am aware of it, that type of school designation not being available in the country in which I reside, is further education. Moreover another one of our laws already states that compulsary education is free, so why would it refer to that? |
| Date | 22:07:55, June 22, 2005 CET |
From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill II | | Message | Sorry NMRP I'm just generally confused. Your probably right - this bill will get my vote. Poor kids need help basically. You really aren't a communist party are you? ;-) |
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Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 212 |
| no | Total Seats: 0 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 88 |
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