Its never too late. 102 year old woman finally gets her PHD.

A German woman is likely to enter the Guinness Book of World Records after she became the oldest woman to receive a doctoral degree on Tuesday.

Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, who says she was not allowed to defend her doctoral thesis in 1938 under the Nazis because she was part-Jewish, graduated at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Nearly eight decades later, she became Germany's oldest recipient of a doctorate at age 102 on Tuesday.

Ms Rapoport cleared the final hurdle last month by passing an oral exam. She received her doctorate in a celebratory ceremony among other regular students.

AFTER 80 YEARS
"After almost 80 years, it was possible to restore some extent of justice," Burkhard Goeke, the medical director of the university hospital, said in his speech.

"We cannot undo injustices that have been committed, but our insights into the past shape our perspective for the future."

Beaming with joy as she gave her acceptance speech, Syllm-Rapoport stressed that she went through all the efforts of getting the degree at her advanced age not for herself, but for all the others who suffered from injustice.

"For me, the degree didn't mean anything, but to support the great goal of coming to terms with history - I wanted to be part of that,” she told a local television station on Tuesday.

SOURCE: Daily Nation