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> I wonder why nobody else is willing to do this? Well there was a story on french president Macron who was apparently thinking of renaming the ENA (one if not
by ewidar 7y ago
> I wonder why nobody else is willing to do this?
Well there was a story on french president Macron who was apparently thinking of renaming the ENA (one if not the most prestigeous uni in France) to "Institut Superieur des Fonctionaires", ISF in short (http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/l-ena-remplacee-par-l-isf-l-elysee-dement-20190423 http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/l-ena-remplacee-par... sorry it's in French).
But ISF is also the short name of the tax on the richest, which he has gotten rid of amid a lot of controversy.
They didn't end up renaming ENA to ISF, but that would have been a great way to play the SEO game so that searching for "Macron ISF" may have in the future returned results on the school rather than the tax.
- duxut_staglatz 7y agoDescribing the ENA as a university is misleading [0]: its does no research and does grant degrees [1]. All "students" are civil servant in training that have been hired through the civil service examinations and will go on to their jobs. They spend more than half of their "studies" working already to learn on the job. It's like saying Parris Island is a university. [0] In my opinion, this characterization as university stenghtens (a bit) its critics. After all, how come one small university has an almost monopoly on high ranking civil servants and then on top politicians? It should not be the case. But if you see it as a civil servant training program it is obvious how it comes to be - it's like wondering why so many US Army officers come form West Point - well, that's because West Point is there to produce US Army officers. [1] Well it does in partnership with universities, but not for its main civil servant training program
- ganzuul 7y agoHow can you miss the point so intently?
- duxut_staglatz 7y agoThis is only a reply to: "ENA (one if not the most prestigeous uni in France)", and not to the ENA->ISF name change.
- ganzuul 7y agoThat is not the point. The topic of the article is clear.
- JshWright 7y agoThere is no rule that says you can only reply to the primary point of a comment. Personally I found the clarification interesting, and learned something from it. Why do you think that detracts from the point about the potential motivation behind the rebranding? It's possible to learn more than one thing...
- ganzuul 7y ago"Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoThe full paragraph in the guidelines is: > Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. In other words, if someone posts a story about the new iPhone, don't comment "Did you hear the rumor that Tim Cook likes killing puppies?"
- JshWright 7y agoThe more in-depth description of ENA is not unrelated, controversial, generic, or a tangent.
- TomVDB 7y agoI just learned something because of his post. I always thought that the ENA was similar to the Ecole de Petrole (a prestigious engineering school) but for economics or something like that.
- duxut_staglatz 7y agoTypo : it does _not_ grant degrees.
- vonmoltke 7y ago> it's like wondering why so many US Army officers come form West Point - well, that's because West Point is there to produce US Army officers US service academies and War Colleges are actually degree-granting institutions, though.
- duxut_staglatz 7y agoThis is indeed a limit of my analogy. A closer equivalent would be bootcamp for enlisted personel.