Emmanuel Macron has announced the closure of the École Nationale d’Administration,
the elite French finishing school for the country’s leaders, where he himself studied. The grande école, or ENA, has been the pathway to power for top civil servants and four presidents. Founded by Gen Charles de Gaulle in October 1945 with the idea of breaking the upper-class hold over France’s higher echelons, ending nepotism and making the civil service more democratic, it has instead become a byword for an establishment elite and been accused by critics of encouraging groupthink.
Source: theguardian.com