Austrailian great great grandma is worldest oldest master’s degree recipient

A 94-year-old Australian great-great-grandmother who quit school at12 is said to have become the world’s oldest person to earn auniversity masters degree.  Medical Science Masters Degree graduate Phyllis Turner, fromAustralia’s Adelaide University, began studying for her postgraduatedegree at age 90 and received her award this week.  “I feel very very happy after five years of study, but sorry that Iam just a little bit immobilised,” Mrs Turner, who uses a walkingstick, told Australian papers.  Degree supervisor Professor Maciej Henneberg said he had been amazed by Turner’s energy and dedication to study.  “Mentally she was like any other student. You couldn’t tell herthinking, her enthusiasm and her interests apart from somebody who was25. She has a lively mind,” he told Reuters. She used to wake up at 5am in the morning and think about something, and then ring to say she wanted to check on it.”  Turner left primary school at 12 to help her mother look after her siblings after her father left the family.  She returned to study almost 60 years later, enrolling at theprestigious Adelaide University to study anthropology at age 70,winning honours in 2002 before moving on to her masters.

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