VTI Poperinge (open day, 31 May 2009)
The VTI Poperinge is a secondary school in Poperinge in the Belgian province of West Flanders, with technical and vocational secondary education. History
In the interbellum, Poperinge had already been a free vocational school, a vocational school or a lower secondary school, managed by the local pastor. This small school, with two to four classes, offered both general subjects and more technical subjects such as engineering or woodworking in the middle of October to April.
The Free Technical Institute was inaugurated on September 1, 1961, and included 72 students in its first school year. In the years before, there was only an option in the city to attend general secondary education at the local Saint-Stanislas college, or by bike or train to move to Ypres Secondary Secondary Education. The VTI Ypres had a capacity problem with 1,000 students and a shortage of classes and studios, and the student analysis showed that a large group of students came from the hopping city or the surrounding area. This was enough for the Bruges bishop, monseigneur De Smedt, to give E.H. The Wulf, who built the "Ieper" school, commissioned a technical school in Poperinge in May 1960.
As a venue, the monastery and the school rooms of the Sisters Paulienen were recovered at the Vleterbeek. The sisters "Paulienen" got their name because the religious community that settled here in 1805 chose Saint Vincentius a Paulo as a patron saint. At the site, the sisters had more than a century of basic education. The monastic order was moved to Moorslede in the summer of 1961 at the request of the bishop to make way for the VTI.
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