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Green Party Launches Idea for "National Public Administration School"
July 5652

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Joanna Puehl, the Green Party's spokesperson for Educational affairs.

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Dunburg - The Green Party has approved an update to their party platform regarding public education and research, the update was called for since the party would like to shift their political base to a more highly educated and younger electorate, and thus they wanted new policies to present to these voters in the federal election next year. One of those policies regards the creation of a new public university, focused solely on political science and public administration: a school that educate, trains and recruits the future civil servants and public executives of the Dundorfian federal Government and the five State governments.

Currently, any person with a title higher than high school, can apply for a job as a public employee in the Federal Government after they pass a basic test of knowledge, while at the State level they are hired by the State Government; in both cases leaving the door open to potential incompetence in the first case or worse, nepotism or favouritism in the second case. The idea is that a school dedicated solely to train and recruit the civil servants, the new public workforce will be more competent, efficient and less prone to scandals. To keep this carreer option open to everyone, the proposal says the new school must be public and with accessible tuition for all. The National Association of Higher-Education Students has expressed support for this proposal, as did the Teachers and Professors' Union of Dundorf, while the DSDP said they would join the Greens in voting in favor of the bill. We received no word yet from the NDZP, TLD and DRF/DSU.

But not everyone is happy: other universities are saying that their political science departments will be 'severely affected' by the creation of this new school, while Minister-President Thomas Heiss, of the JSU (Julstochian Social Union), criticized Ms. Puelh's proposal as 'radically federalist and socialist':

This bill will once more strip State governments of their constitutionally recognized powers, and will impose Dunburg Green standards for Julstoch, and Julstochians don't want them. Not to mention that the State University of Lutzenkamp, currently the top politics department in the nation, would be very damaged by this new Federal competition. This is a bill which is essentially radically federalist and socialist, and we're ready to sue the Federal Government if it becomes law.