Dublin schools tops for college entry

ONLY three schools outside Dublin feature in a list of 25 schools which sent most students to college, but which took social and other factors into account for the first time.

The researchers based a school’s performance on the proportion of students who went on to third level and the colleges they attended.

But higher points were given to schools whose students went to Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, as both were ranked in the world’s 100 top universities last year by The Times Higher Education Supplement.