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A new degree - aged 43
In 2011, Charmaine Dixey from Cheltenham decided life would begin at 40, and signed up to study Business Information Technology at the University of Gloucestershire.
In the last five years, the number of mature students applying to study for a university degree has grown.
In the Spring of 2011, Charmaine Dixey from Cheltenham decided life would begin at 40, and signed up to study Business Information Technology at the University of Gloucestershire.
She's now become the first woman in her family to graduate with a university degree. She told Jane Gething-Lewis why she decided to take the plunge...
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Mon 12 Jan 201509:00
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
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