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Post by lagatta on Apr 8, 2021 14:22:13 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 8, 2021 14:42:24 GMT
We don't really believe yet that anything will change except the name.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 8, 2021 18:26:16 GMT
It's official -- there is a new name.
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Post by bjd on Apr 8, 2021 18:32:10 GMT
It's official -- there is a new name. How official? I just watched the news and they mentioned one name as a possibility: Ecole d'Administration Publique. I heard a radio interview at noon with the head of ENA alumni -- he thinks closing it is a terrible idea. No surprise there.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 8, 2021 18:40:36 GMT
Not official yet -- that will take a few days (or weeks -- no rush until the end of the term). Somebody will probably come up with something more universally inclusive before then.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 9, 2021 4:10:22 GMT
Institut du Service Public is apparently the new name.
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Post by bjd on Apr 9, 2021 5:46:50 GMT
That name doesn't imply that it's a place of learning to be a high-level civil servant.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 9, 2021 7:10:32 GMT
And that is apparently the point. It will no longer automatically attract golden boys and girls because one of the new requirements upon graduation is to serve in a regional administration for six years before having any hope of getting one of the cushy jobs in Paris. Up until now, the top 100 graduates every year automatically got their pick of all of the best positions in Paris, either in terms of prestige or salary or both. That's why there was already such a howl when the ENA was moved to Strasbourg in 1991. Before then, the students could already worm their way into their future jobs with Parisian internships and such and build up an old-boy network before the age of 25.
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Post by bjd on Apr 9, 2021 8:52:06 GMT
I remember that fuss. There is a similar fuss each time a big national service is moved away from Paris -- same happened when the CNES and meteorology services were moved to Toulouse.
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