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Bill: Higher Education Tuition Funding
Details
Submitted by[?]: UniFication 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: August 2290
Description[?]:
| With an increase in the amount of students who wish to attend University, we believe that the government can not longer afford to pay for those students taking courses which will have no futher benefit to our Holy land. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Current: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:26:59, September 26, 2006 CET | From | Spiritualists' National Union | To | Debating the Higher Education Tuition Funding |
| Message | We have some sympathy for this proposal, but would like to see it combined with measured to make primary and secondary education more widely available to children from all backgrounds. |
| Date | 09:26:46, September 27, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Higher Education Tuition Funding |
| Message | This has our wholehearted support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 81 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 16 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 3 |
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