In Europe itself, finishing schools are dying out.
Prisons are finishing schools for criminals, so they breed more crime.
Sheeps are graduates of that most venerable of comedy finishing schools, Cambridge Footlights.
Women's colleges are not "finishing schools," but places for motivated women to get an excellent education.
HALF a century ago, many women's colleges were little more than finishing schools.
We don't need a social safety net; we need finishing schools on "1950s traditionalist values and practices".
Major-college programs are minor leagues for professional teams, finishing schools for athletes and a great source of campus entertainment.
But the ambitions stirring below created a market for a new breed of middle-class finishing schools.
It is a country known mostly for mountains, chocolate, anonymous bank accounts, an exemplary public transport system and finishing schools.
What can't be seen from the air are the dockside finishing schools that apply the final touches to half a million vehicles that pass through each year.
The university system proper is non-selective, while the other system – "Les Grandes Ecoles", finishing schools for the business and political elite – is hyper-selective and lavishly financed.
