The Belgian sugar school and its extensions

The Belgian sugar school and its extensions.

Summary

Founded in Landen in 1889 on the private initiative of Eugène Nihoul, the Belgian Sugar School was the first sugar institution in Belgium, a sector that had until then been dependent on foreign industries. In 1891, the school moved to Glons, where it acquired its letters of nobility; students of nearly 40 different nationalities obtained their Sugar Engineer diploma there. In 1905, the school became the Glons-Liège Polytechnic Institute and expanded its training with other qualifications such as that of technical engineer. The First World War then forced the Institute to move to Liège, where it prospered for many years before being taken over by the city of Liège in the 1950s. In 1977, the Polytechnic Institute merged with two other higher institutes and took the name of the Institut Supérieur Industriel Liégeois (ISIL). In 1989, ISIL came under the supervision of the Province of Liège and became the Higher Institute of the Province of Liège. This book details the process leading to the creation of this Belgian Sugar School, and also covers the successive developments of the school, the life of the buildings and the school through the teaching staff, the examination juries, the alumni associations, the festivities