Meet the 92-year-old woman who has just graduated from Swansea University

Meet the 92-year-old woman who has just graduated from Swansea University

Reflecting on her latest accomplishment, Bernice said she has "spent my life studying and shall continue so to do until I depart for somewhere better".

From Gothic grammar to the Holy Grail: 92‑year‑old former teacher graduates for FIFTH time

Bernice Juxon‑Jones, who taught in schools in Swansea and Port Talbot before later emigrating to Bermuda, has just been awarded a Master of Philosophy in Medieval German from Swansea University. Her thesis explored Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s medieval epic about the quest for the Holy Grail. Fascination sparked by a dusty book Bernice’s love of German began when she discovered a grammar book printed in 1889. “It was an old German grammar…