Rhodes Scholarship
When Cecil John Rhodes founded his world-wide Scholarship scheme in 1902, he selected four South African schools as part of that scheme. The schools are St Andrew's College in Grahamstown, Bishops and SACS in Cape Town and Paul Roos in Stellenbosch.
The Rhodes Scholarship generously funds study at Oxford University, where the fees are around £25,000 per year.
One has to be a very strong academic to be selected as a Rhodes Scholar, but the scholarship also has three other sets of criteria:
- leadership and character
- community involvement
- sporting achievement
Any boy or girl who has studied for a minimum of three terms at St Andrew's College is eligible to apply for the Rhodes Scholarship after completing a university degree.
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St Andrew's College Rhodes Scholars |
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1903 C J Gardner |
1938 C Bennett |
1973 C A Saner 2007 A P K Craig |
Mandela is the patron of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, the organisation that administrates the Mandela Rhodes Scholarships. As far as possible the Foundation tries to organise all the Mandela Scholars from across the country each year to meet Mandela. There were 28 of the 2010 Mandela Rhodes scholars that met him at his office in Houghton in May 2010. Seen here is Clive Eley with Mr Mandela.
Sir Henry Strakosch Memorial Scholarships 201229th January 2012
To encourage and reward excellence in Science and Maths
18th January 2012
Three College boys travelled to Kampalato to join this amazing experience.
