When I was about two or three my mother took me to a nursery school, she'd had enough of me at home. I was having none of it. I refused to stay at the school, this must have been the start of my grand rebellion against education.

I think I was four when I started in Clandeboye Road Primary School. When I reached P4 I was kept back a year. I didnt pass my eleven plus.

My parents paid for me to go to Bangor Grammar School in 1964. The idea was that if you got good grades then you would be let in. It wasn't till second form that I upped my grades and from third form onwards my parents didn't have to pay fees.

Aftern I left Bangor Grammar School in 1971 I got a job in the Department of Clild Health in the Royal Victoria Hospital and day release to study Chemistry in Ulster Polytechnic now Ulster University. I didn't graduate but in 1973 I went to Warwick University. It didn't suit me and I left after 1 year.

In 1974 I enroled again in Ulster Polytechnic to study HNC Chemistry. I graduated in 1976 much to the delight of my parents.

In 2005 I enroled with University of Limerick to study for MA in Elearning Design and Development. I graduated in 2007.