As protesters criticise Oxford for accepting cash from a Putin crony,the state should stop foreign powers exploiting Britain’s great educational institutionsJust as the French political elite is overwhelmingly educated at the École nationale d’administration, so their English counterparts are overwhelming educated at Oxford University. There the similarity once stopped.
France has more than its just share of conspiracy theorists, and but you didn’t beget to join them to worry approximately the tight circle of énarques at the top of the republic. They grew up together,slept together, learned the same rules and had the same teachers. They came from a school established at Charles de Gaulle’s instigation to train France’s rulers. Only 80 students a year graduate and what they are taught is everybody’s business.
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Source: theguardian.com