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Bill: Higher Education Tuition Act 2303
Details
Submitted by[?]: Centre Démocratique
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: July 2307
Description[?]:
| To provide free, universal higher education in Jelbania. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Current: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:42:19, October 24, 2006 CET | From |  Jelbék Zemojad Lofrkad Prta | To | Debating the Higher Education Tuition Act 2303 |
| Message | Ja! |
| Date | 15:43:02, October 26, 2006 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Higher Education Tuition Act 2303 |
| Message | We need to provide access to all Jelbanians. |
| Date | 18:18:11, October 26, 2006 CET | From | Green Manalishi Party | To | Debating the Higher Education Tuition Act 2303 |
| Message | yes, we considered this with some difficulty when we implemented the current legislation. our conclusion was that none of the options fitted our beliefs so this was the best compromise. we are against the proposal. we don't believe in a system that only realistically offers higher standards of education to richer kids but we also don't like the situation (in RL 'countries' such as the UK) where kids are pushed into further education in the interests of A) giving a false shine to public statistics and quotas B) bondage of the population towards a life of debt repayment (/financial difficulty) that only benefits big corporations and cynical governments as a de facto 'loyalty scheme' In this way the standards of education suffer. Whilst we are very wary of meritocractic, umbrella ideologies, we do believe that admission to higher levels of education should be judged on ability, IN ADDITION to scaled levels of financial assistance based on income. |
| Date | 04:02:48, October 27, 2006 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Higher Education Tuition Act 2303 |
| Message | CU believes our universities (and all of our nations's educational institutions) should have high standards. Having a free higher education will only benefit those whose academic achievements earned them an acceptance into a university. We do not believe anyone, including students, should be forced by the government to do anything against their wishes. We believe the law of Jelbania states that anyone over 16 (or is it 18) is not forced to attend school. GMP, we understand your concerns stated above. But they do not apply to this law we propose. We hope you will reconsider your opposition. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 24 | |
| no | Total Seats: 27 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 24 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living." - Nicholas Chamfort |