After studying Secondary Education and Teaching in Lugo, he took a degree in Philosophy and Educational Sciences at Santiago de Compostela University. He worked as a teacher in Lugo, San Sadurniño and Carballo, where he directed ‘Francisco Franco’ School. In 1978, he got a post at ‘Alborada’ School in A Coruña, which he also directed until February 1983 that he got a post at the Education Inspection Service. In 1996, he was nominated as provincial delegate of the ‘Consellería de Educación e Ordenación Universitaria’ and five years later, he entered the ‘Dirección Xeral de Centros e Inspección Educativa’.