"
O Toulouse, / I'm taking the avenue back to school, / My satchel is stuffed with punches",
sang Nougaro.
In the Pink City, this desire for "castagne" has won over the hushed world of teacher-researchers.
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), long directed by the Nobel Prize winner in economics Jean Tirole (who remains honorary president of the school's foundation), has in fact just obtained from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research a promise of administrative, scientific and financial independence.
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A thunderclap following the multiple scratches that the leaders of TSE and Toulouse-1 University regularly face, of which the famous school of economics is only a simple component despite its international aura.
"There is an awareness that the potential of TSE in terms of the scientific and educational project is difficult to develop in a context of governance where things are administratively cumbersome and slow"
, wants to believe Joël Echevarria, the general director of services of TSE.
Hugues Kenfack, president of Toulouse-1 University, evokes the risk of
"fragmentation of our identity"
linked to the secession of TSE.
In reality, Toulouse School of Economics and its parent university do not defend the same visions of higher education.
While the first aims for the first places in the international rankings in its category, by being selective at several levels, the second aims to welcome all or almost all graduates.