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Continuing education

Continuing education

Some older people study as a way of pursuing interests or using their spare time well. Marie Bell worked into her 70s, then started her PhD at the age of 79. She graduated in 2005 when she was 82 – this made her Victoria University's oldest PhD graduate at the time.

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Peggy Koopman-Boyden, Older people – Life circumstances, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/26702/continuing-education (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Peggy Koopman-Boyden, published 22 March 2011.

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Some older people study as a way of pursuing interests or using their spare time well. Marie Bell worked into her 70s, then started her PhD at the age of 79.
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Timothy Spray
25 November 2016
I think these people are great samples of the fascinating lifestyle. I wish that when I will be at the age of 80 I still be so interesting and have a great desire to live and improving myself.