Abstract
In a region like the North were industrial growth was fast, one could have expected a rapid progress in the training of skilled workers. However, begore 1900, imitiatives were scarce, except for the creation of the Ecole Professionnelle in Armentières in 1887 and the municipal courses organized by some towns founded in the North : the commercial and industrial Ecole Pratique in Fourmies and the industrial Ecole Pratique in Lille. After 1900 the initiatives were multiplied thanks to the common efforts of two men : Gustave Dron, member of Parliament and mayor of Tourcoing, and Edouard Labbé, general inspector of technical education. Those two men brought the problems out and favoured new foundations that's how the chief industrial towns, according to the 1892 law were provided with technical schools : Tourcoing, Roubaix, Denain, Maubeuge, Valenciennes, Douai, Dunkerque. This development of technical education was not simple. It raised financial problems that town councils had to solve. But it also pointed to fundamental problems : who should technical training responsibilities fall on ? Firms or public authorities ? Opposed interest hampered the efforts made to structure technical training. But this couldn't prevent the North from becoming the department where technical education started awaking interest.
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