Christian Leadership in Education Office (CLEO), provides postgraduate training in education in Cork, Ireland. Originally founded in 1991 as the ''Christian Formation Resource Centre (CFRC)'' by a number of Catholic religious orders, in 1997 it came solely under the

Presentation Brothers The Congregation of Presentation Brothers is an international Catholic congregation of laymen founded in 1802 in Waterford, Ireland, by a local Irish businessman, Edmund Ignatius Rice, now Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice. Presentation Brothers live ...

, becoming Christian Leadership in Education Office. Since 1992 it has run postgraduate degrees, for primary and secondary schoolteachers validated by the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hull ...

.CLEO
Presentation Brothers Website Since the partnership with the University of Hull commenced over 250 teachers have gained Masters in Education, and over 20 have completed doctorates. The MA is a 3 year programme, starting with a first-year certificate followed by a diploma before a final MA year. CLEO is based in Markdye House, Mardyke, Cork. Lecturers are delivered Cork, after school hours during school terms. Each year the ''CLEO Annual Reunion Lecture'' is hosted in Mardyke House. The MEd is recognised by the Irish Department of Education, with some 50 graduates being appointed school principal. In 2019 CLEO in partnership with St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth and Alliance for Catholic Education (

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), began offering the Diploma in Catholic Education (DCE).University of Notre Dame/St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth/CLEO - Diploma in Catholic Education

People Associated with CLEO

Bishop of Meath

Thomas Deenihan Thomas Deenihan KC*HS (born 26 June 1967), in Cork, Ireland is the Bishop in the Catholic Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Meath. Early life and education Educated at North Monastery Christian Brothers School in Cork, he studied for the ...

completed the CLEO/UoH MA programme and gained an Education Doctorate, he taught on the programme and served as chair of the board before his elevation to the Bishopric. Brother J Matthew Feheney was the first Director of the CFRC and Dr. F.J. Steele is the Dean of Studies as the role of Director is now known.

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