The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford. Established in 1903, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. Founder Cecil John Rhodes wanted to promote unity between English-speaking nations and instill a sense of civic-minded leadership and moral fortitude in future leaders.
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The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford. Established in 1903, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. Its founder, diamond magnate Cecil John Rhodes, wanted to promote unity between English-speaking nations and instill a sense of civic-minded leadership and moral fortitude in future leaders. Since its creation, controversy has surrounded its former exclusion of women, historical failure to select Black Africans, and Cecil Rhodes’s standing as a British imperialist. Many scholars have become heads of state, including President of the United States Bill Clinton, President of Pakistan Wasim Sajjad, Chief Minister and Premier of Jamaica Norman Manley, Prime Minister of Malta Dom Mintoff, and Australian Prime Ministers Tony Abbott, Bob Hawke, and Malcolm Turnbull. Notable North American political recipients include Deputy PM of Canada, Chrystia Freeland, Susan Rice, Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal, United States Senators John Neely Kennedy and Cory Booker, Congressmen Antonio Delgado and Andy Kim, former Mayor of South Bend Pete Buttigieg, and former Congresswoman Heather Wilson. Other notable Rhodes Scholars include Nobel Prize-winning scientist and discoverer of penicillin Howard Florey, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Edwin Cameron, economist Michael Spence, journalist and American television host Rachel Maddow, author Naomi Wolf, musician Kris Kristofferson. The Rhodes Scholarships are administered and awarded by the Rhodes Trust, which is located at Rhodes House in Oxford.
It also cooperates with universities in China, BLCC, for example, for high-level scholarships for Chinese students who aim to study in Beijing. In 1925, Rhodes Fellowships were established by the Commonwealth to enable British graduates to study in the U.S. The Kennedy Scholarship programme, created in 1966 as a memorial to John F. Kennedy, adopts a comparable selection process to the Rhodes Scholarship. In 1953, the United Kingdom created the Rhodes Marshall Scholarship as a coeducational alternative to the United. States Scholarship that would allow ten British-graduate students per year tostudy at Harvard or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The scholarships are based on Rhodes’s final will and testament, which states that \”no student shall be qualified or disqualified for election… on account of his race or religious opinions\”. Rhodes also bequeathed scholarships to German students in the hope that, ‘a good understanding between England, Germany and the U States of America will secure the peace of the world’ in his will. The scholarships were founded for two reasons: to. promote unity within the British empire, and to strengthen diplomatic ties between Britain and the US of America. By 1900 the travelling scholarship had become an important part of settler universities’ educational visions. It served as a crucial mechanism by which they sought to claim their citizenship of what they saw as the expansive British academic world. Rhodes program was a copy that soon became the best-known version.
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