He has an honours degree in English, diplomas in teaching and school management and and M.ed. He served as executive secretary of the National Council for Education in 1996-98, and since then has taken a very active interest in disability studies, perhaps because he is now visually impaired himself. He is president of an N.G.O for the Visually impaired specialising in Assistive Devices and is now heading an Erasmus project on the education of visually impaired students. He has participated in developing national strategies with regard to post-secondary education and Disability and Education.