You should be. To be honest, your written English is awkward and with lots of mistakes. Doing a masters degree first would be good idea in the sense that you would get an opportunity to enhance your writing and speaking skills.

I researched the issue a bit longer and found that most resellers of Nvivo require that you fax them a copy of your id card or other proof of student status. You should contect a reseller or the QSR international to find out how to satisfy their requirements.. Their instructions are a little bit unclear..

I suppose that the Nvivo 8 student licence is fully functional for 12 months. Then you have to upgrade it. As far as I know you will have to submit a copy of your student ID card and passport to prove that you are a student.

Have you checked out the other CAQDAS packages or is Nvivo the only one which suits for your research project? For example, Atlas.ti student licence costs only 99 euros (which is only half of the price of Nvivo), the licence does not expire and you will get also updates..

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This comparison chart looks useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software

It seems that you will be able to use Jabref with Word by installing bibtex4word add-on:
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/hp/staff/dmb/perl/bibtex4word.dot

If you are able to spend a few weeks at the university in summers, Essex would be an alternative choice:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/csee/pg_research/pgrDegrees.aspx