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Delegates and other members of the Nation States UN, You may have noticed for the past week or so a proposal that is called Education for the Masses. Now it has not been approved and I am asking for imput that would make it acceptable for delegates from ALL political backgrounds. Your information is VERY appreciated! You can telegram me on the NS telegram system or let me know in this thread! Thanks!

this is the current proposal.

Education is taken for granted in most nations by many of it's people. Education for the Masses ensures that all people regardless of age, creed, religion, and race are guaranteed educational support.

CREATES
1. Education Counsil that regulates funding of education programs in developing nations or in nations that lack proper educational funding and facilities.

2. Ensures protection of all who apply to the education system from discrimination by their national policy.

3. Helps to fund construction of educational facilities in nations that request educational aid.

4. Protects all from indoctrineation by hiring third party teaching staff and administrational staff.

5. Will help developing nations to develop stronger economies and stable government by increasing amount of graduated citizens and college trained citizens.

6. Will reduce the gap between the rich and the poor by educating more of the masses.

7. Will standardize the curricullum for all levels across the world.

8. Will create an organization to create and monitor regional authorities to the school systems of the nations in the region.

This reform is necessary to help the evergrowing population keep up with the pace of the ever changing world.

hm, I see no grievous "don't vote for this" stickers on it. But I notice that it DOES a lot. I've found that loosening up the actual things a proposal does is one of the easiest ways to bring it closer to quorum.

Another thing is its format. It isn't bad the way it is, in fact I really appreciate teh care that was put in to number and separate arguments/actions but many people have become accustomed to the action word-descriptive phrase system, as well as the preamblatory "why" and ‘post-amblatory’ (or something like that) "how" convention.

something like:
why
REALIZING schools schools schools schools schools,
NOTING WITH DURESS insert obligatory shocked clasue here
SCRUTINIZING the "color" of Natalie portman's outfit...


how
RESOLVES to do something about school,
ENCOURAGES some high-minded ideal that would never be passed as a "resolved statement",
CALL UPON UN members to do something other than pick noses (thier own that is),


This is the convention for many. For one thing it makes you seem seriously into the UN mindset; even if you personally think the UN's just a caddy to carry around your clubs. Another thing is that it's pretty easy to follow. The arguments are clear and build atop one another, and the action is pretty clear cut and allows delegates to see what you want to do. and the capitalized verbs really bring out the mental image which are needed to sell a proposal as believable. You really want this because delegates possibly supporting your proposal are looking through several dozen other proposals, they don't have time to waste with proposals that need a second glance to understand.

As far as the actual things that the proposal does? Well, to be honest, I'm lazy and didn't really take the time to check it and see what strikes me as non-mainstream. Maybe I'll get back later on that, I'm tired and the forum is now finally recognizing me as a "member" instead of a "new member" (50th post). hooray!

and Good Luck

this is the current proposal.

Education is taken for granted in most nations by many of it's people. Education for the Masses ensures that all people regardless of age, creed, religion, and race are guaranteed educational support.

CREATES
1. Education Counsil that regulates funding of education programs in developing nations or in nations that lack proper educational funding and facilities.

2. Ensures protection of all who apply to the education system from discrimination by their national policy.

3. Helps to fund construction of educational facilities in nations that request educational aid.

4. Protects all from indoctrineation by hiring third party teaching staff and administrational staff.

5. Will help developing nations to develop stronger economies and stable government by increasing amount of graduated citizens and college trained citizens.

6. Will reduce the gap between the rich and the poor by educating more of the masses.

7. Will standardize the curricullum for all levels across the world.

8. Will create an organization to create and monitor regional authorities to the school systems of the nations in the region.

This reform is necessary to help the evergrowing population keep up with the pace of the ever changing world.

I'm surprised that the mods didn't delete the proposal ... because I'm having a very hard time seeing what makes this different than the UN Educational Committee resolution that passed on 2004.04.09.

I'm sure you are new, which is great, and there still is *much* that can be done with respect to education, but you should look at the prior UN resolutions. *ALL* nations should make sure they aren't essentially resubmitting an existing UN resolution.

While I appauld your interesting in education and even support people revisiting topics and even *like* the organization of your proposal (it is simple and conveys the basic idea), we've already passed pretty much the EXACT same thing with very slightly different words just a few months ago.

Now what you may want to do is telegram the nation Hersfold and ask them if they want to continue to pursue the Funding the UNEC proposal that their nation and mine co-authored. If Hersfold doesn't want to pursue that *funding* based proposal, shown here, I'll be happy to work with you to change it *as* you see fit and I'll help you be the author and campaign with you to get the next step in Education reform underway. :)

But I could be wrong, perhaps people will want to debate your proposal again, because the truth is ... the turn over in nations is pretty high in the game, and many players weren't around in April.


The General Assembly,

AWARE of the passage of its resolution, United Nations Education Committee, adopted April 9, 2004,

1. DEFINES the roll of the UNEC to include:
(a) Providing educational grants to UN member states that request financial help for their education programs,
(b) Providing additional educational grants in the form of purchased supplies directly to all levels of public education of member states that have requested financial help, as well as selected private education programs that have applied for supply grants to the UNEC,
(c) Evaluating the level of need and appropriate supply purchases for the national education programs and public and private school programs that have applied to the UNEC for assistance, and
(d) Monitor the implementation of its grants and report its findings to this assembly when appropriate;

2. ESTABLISHES a United Nations Educational Trust Fund, which will be managed by the UNEC and funded through donations by international, national, and non-governmental sources;

3. FURTHER DEFINES the voting membership of the UNEC to include:
(a) any UN member state which contributes to the United Nations Education Trust Fund, and
(b) a number UN member states, not to exceed 100 seats, as elected by the UN General Assembly to serve one year terms;

4. RECOMMENDS two advisory panels to the UNEC, composed of:
(a) up to two teachers from each UN member state, and
(b) up to two students from each UN member state;

5. INSTRUCTS the voting membership of the UNEC to take into consideration all of the recommendations provided by the UNEC advisory panel;

6. AUTHORIZES the UNEC to base the decisions concerning the awarding and continuation of the United Nations Education Trust Fund grants on both the recommendations of the UNEC advisory panel as well as on information collected on the current status of overall quality of the programs that apply for financial aid;

7. SUGGESTS that the evaluation of the current status of the overall quality of educational programs includes a budget analysis of the educational program, student retention, school curriculum and program of study, educational goals of the society in question, and feedback from the students / teachers / administration and representatives of the country applying for the grant;

8. AFFIRMS that the grants provided by the UNEC will only be used for educational purposes, such that if the UNEC has reason to believe the funds or supplies it provides are being used for non-educational programs, the UNEC may vote to suspend the funds upon an investigation, as provided by its monitoring program described above;

9. ACKNOWLEDGES the inherent right of societies to determine what is best for their children, by taking into consider the cultural and social needs of the members states and schools that apply to the UNEC;

10. REAFFIRMS that the financial resources provided by the UNEC should be given out on a need basis, with the nations most in need of assistance will be given a priority in the UNEC decision making process; and

11. EXPRESSES ITS HOPE that in time that nations will be able to supplement the aid provided by the UNEC and that the programs and institutions that apply for UNEC aid may become self-succient.


We could work together to *shorten* the above proposal. There was a third co-author, but that nation quit the game already as well.

The original UNEC resolution:


UN Educational Committee
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Hersfold

Description:
NOTICING, that the condition of many educational facilities worldwide lack the ability to properly teach thier children, in that: Classrooms are falling into disrepair; Teachers are unable to properly educate their students due to poor training: And, schools do not have sufficent funds to purchase better equipment to replace old, broken and/or out-of-date materials;

SEEING that a student's mental welfare and self-esteem can be greatly improved through extra-curricular activities, which many schools can not afford or do not fund sufficently;

FINDING that the food served in many school cafeterias is not healthy, and tastes revolting besides;

SHOCKED by the fact that many school systems lack sufficent security systems to keep their students safe from dangerous trespassers and, in some cases, themselves;

HEARING that many countries cut the budget for education before anything else to aid funding for other programs;

HAVING PASSED the resolution "Free Education" on August 19th of the year 2003; AND

REALIZING that today's children are tommorrow's future, and without proper education of these children, our future will fail;

THE NATIONSTATES UNITED NATIONS shall form the United Nations Educational Committee, or UNEC, which shall resolve all of these problems in our nation's educational systems by providing funding to these systems, so they may repair unsafe schools, purchase security systems to protect our students from harm, provide extra-curricular activities to help our children's mental and physical state of being, provide them with healthier school lunches, provide a better learning environment for our children by training teachers and purchasing more up-to-date materials for the students, and overall ensuring our world's future to be a prosperous one.

See, this is why I think your resolution looks like Hersfold's. In any event, you could take any one of your topics and expand it. Spell out the details more, and build on Hersfold's idea, but do so in a way you'd like to help education.

The above is really just the general convention / declaration. The next step is to really do something. While I like the version Hersfold and I co-wrote, Hersfold is a wonderful nation and you'll find that their UN Ambassador is one of the hardest working ambassadors around. He may have some ideas and be willing to help you come up with something new and interesting.

Best Wishes,

Thank You for your help in this matter! I am considering your suggestions!

this is the current proposal.

3. Helps to fund construction of educational facilities in nations that request educational aid.

5. Will help developing nations to develop stronger economies and stable government by increasing amount of graduated citizens and college trained citizens.


Point 3 wasn't directly addressed by the UNEC. The UNEC focused on repairing facilities, so this is one spin off point. I think it will be hard sell though.

Point 5 hasn't really be addressed by anything, in there isn't any UN student / teacher exchange program. In fact, higher education hasn't really been the subject of any resolution yet, and I think the point that developing nations do benefit from having more of their citizens going to colleges is something many of us will be open too. Furthermore, college student exchange programs could help reduce international tensions.

Something else to consider: UN internships. What would it be like if students in developing nations were given the chance to come to the UN and work as student interns? You could make an entire resolution about this.

Lots of ideas. The Chipmunks basic resolution format is good: write "why" and then "how". At this point, just focus on the "why" and feel free to treat this forum as your "notepad". Write out ideas, and then change them based on comments.

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