The Pernambuco Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology (Portuguese: Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco, IFPE) is a Brazilian institution of higher education located in Pernambuco State, Brazil. Its rectory is headquartered in Recife, Pernambuco. The IFPE is one of the oldest and most traditional among the Federal Institutes, it has 9 campuses and offers Technical, undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as researches and scientific production. The IFPE was founded on September 23, 1909, when the former Brazilian president Nilo Peçanha signed the Decree Nº 7.566, creating the Escolas de Aprendizes e Artífices (Craftsmen and Apprentices's Schools) making it the oldest federal institute in Brazil. It has already been given numerous names, such as: Escola de Artifíces do Recife (Recife's Craftsmen's School), Liceu Industrial (Industrial Lyceum), Escola Técnica do Recife (Recife's Vocational School) and Escola Técnica Federal de Pernambuco (Pernambuco's Federal Vocational School - ETFPE). Most of those names were related to its reason to exist: Give an industrial education with high standards for Pernambuco's people, specially the less fortunate. More information...
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