Le Marais Sainte-Thérèse Professional School | |
Other Name: | Le Marais Sainte-Thérèse |
Streetaddress: | 48 Boulevard Thiers |
City: | Saint-Étienne |
Province: | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
Postcode: | 42000 |
Country: | France |
Type: | Private secondary school and vocational training college |
Religion: | Catholic |
Denomination: | Jesuit |
Patron: | St Thérèse |
Founder: | Fr Denis Jourjon, SJ |
Director: | Bernard Lassabliere |
Gender: | Co-educational |
Le Marais Sainte-Thérèse Professional School is a private Catholic secondary school and vocational training college, located in Saint-Étienne, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. The school was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1913.
Students may work toward a certificate of professional aptitude (CAP); a professional baccalaureate or a technical patent of trades (BTM).[1]
In 1913 Fr Denis Jourjon, SJ, created a learning and forgeing workshop, on what is the current site of the Le Marais Sainte-Thérèse high school. In 1960, the workshops were converted into a technical education college. Further developments resulted in the establishment on a training center in 1975, and subsequent developments included the introduction of electronics from 1979, mechanical production in 1987, metal fabrication in 1999, optics lunettary, micro-computing, and computer networking from 2003, dental prosthetics from 2005, industrial and home automated electronics from 2007, and further industrial workshops from 2009.[2]