At the age of 101, a PE instructor whose classes were disrupted by missiles during the Second World War has earned her degree.

 

 

Before earning her diploma in 1942, Madge Brown took a year off to work as a nurse as Britain fought the Nazis in World War Two.

 

Yet, the three-year physical education program was not recognized as the level of study it is now.

 

The pensioner and other people who became teachers at the now-defunct Nonington College throughout the 1930s and 1940s, according to the University of London, deserve the same kind of respect.

 

So Madge has been given her degree – 81 years after graduating.