The president called for a greater emphasis on math and science education in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences in April.

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The training course is based on a methodological guide and a reference manual produced by UNESCO, and was adapted to the Haitian situation by the faculty of education sciences at Quisqueya University.

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From 2004 to 2008, he was General Secretary for Education at the Spanish Ministry of Education and Sciences.

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Before retiring in 1984, Mr Lowe worked as an Inspector of Schools with the Department of Education and Sciences, and he leaves three sons from a previous marriage.

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