2023-11-08 12:33:22
When a student enters the ENS by competitive examination and acquires the title of trainee civil servant, he receives a sum of money from the State every month during his studies. In exchange for this “treatment”, he must agree to work for the state for ten years unless he repays the amount received while he was at school. This is particularly a subject of negotiation when hiring when certain students go to the private sector. However, not all resigning students turn to a private company.
According to The cross, a young woman, a student at ENS Lyon between 2010 and 2014, and winner of the aggregation, decided to give up a career in the public service to turn to religion and entered a congregation, the apostolic sisters from Saint-Jean, directly after his studies. The school then asked him to reimburse the 37,000 euros for his treatment. A request for exemption was made by the young sister and was rejected by the ENS.
The vow of poverty is not valid for a dispensation
The decision was confirmed by the Lyon Administrative Court of Appeal on October 20. “The impecuniosity reported by the appellant, who has in fact received no income since she left the ENS, results from her very choice to enter an order whose members, having taken a vow of poverty, do not are not paid for the activities they carry out,” specifies the decision which supports the school’s refusal to exempt the student.
The student is not the first to request an exemption from reimbursement and for several years, normal schools, Polytechnics and even the National School of Magistracy have had to deal with a series of students leaving the public sector for the private sector. The ENA is also concerned. One of his students also declared that he was required to repay the years he did not devote to the State: Emmanuel Macron, who resigned from the civil service in November 2016.
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