Education

Institute of Education sold to UK-based Dukes group

Based on Leeson Street in Dublin, The Institute is one of the best-known schools in the country

Yvonne O'Toole, Principal, and Peter Kearns, Managing Director, pictured at the Institute of Education on Lower Leeson Street Photograph - Naoise Culhane

The Institute of Education has been sold to the Dukes Education family, an international education group with schools in Britain and Europe.

Based on Leeson Street in Dublin, The Institute is one of the best-known schools in the country.

The secondary school, which was founded in 1969 by the late Ray Kearns, currently provides senior cycle tuition and exam preparation courses in 28 Leaving Cert subjects to over 7,000 full and part-time students annually. It ...