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Established. 1902. Website. www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom. The scholarship is open to men and women from all backgrounds around the world. [1] Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world.
The Mandela Rhodes Foundation was announced in February 2002 when The Rhodes Trust, as part of its centenary celebrations, partnered with Nelson Mandela and pledged funding for the scholarship for 10 years. [1] Jakes Gerwel, chancellor of Rhodes University and Rhodes Trust CEO John Rowett hatched the idea.
Balliol College, Oxford. Elizabeth Kiss (born 1961) is an American philosopher and academic administrator, specialising in moral and political philosophy. Since 2018, she has been the Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford University, and CEO of the Rhodes Trust. [1][2] She is responsible for administering the Rhodes Scholarship, providing pastoral ...
Cecil Rhodes, the Founder of the Rhodes Scholarships; John McCall MacBain, philanthropist [11] Zambian human rights activist Lucy Banda-Sichone; her portrait, unveiled in 2015, was the first of a woman Rhodes Scholar ever displayed in Rhodes House. [12] Human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Dr Menaka Guruswamy. [13]
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This is a list of Rhodes Scholars, covering notable people who have received a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford since its 1902 founding, sorted by the year the scholarship started and student surname. All names are verified using the Rhodes Scholar Database. This is not an exhaustive list of all Rhodes Scholars.
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The University of Oxford is the setting for numerous works of fiction and was mentioned as early as 1400 when Chaucer, in Canterbury Tales, referred to a "Clerk [student] of Oxenford". [312] Mortimer Proctor argues the first campus novel was The Adventures of Oxymel Classic, Esq; Once an Oxford Scholar (1768). [313]