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It's not quite the French equivalent to closing Eton (I guess that would be the ENS)
Aren’t the grandes ecoles universities, where Eton is a college?
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Aren’t the grandes ecoles universities, where Eton is a college?
Sorry, missed this. Yes, but they're funny kinds of universities. I was trying to work out how entrenched privilege mainly goes in the education system, and finds its connections, and I think in France it's less at secondary/A-level school level than at university. Obviously, one might say that that's precisely what makes it non-comparable.
Oliver Schick
This surprised me:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/08/macron-close-france-elite-finishing-school-ena-elite-presidents
It's not quite the French equivalent to closing Eton (I guess that would be the ENS), and it may just be gesture politics, but it may not be a bad thing.