Last week, Rhodes University made history by hosting the 2023 Top 100 Awards in partnership with the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE).

The Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE) is thrilled to announce its partnership with the Career Centre and sponsorship of the annual Top 100 Student Awards. Henceforth, the awards will be known as the “Rhodes University & Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics Top 100 Student Leadership Awards”.

Most philosophers of education or philosophically inclined scholars of education in the past century and a half would agree with the claim that, ideally, education should be the practice of freedom. That is, it ought to cultivate the ability to intelligently decide how we want to shape our lives. The aim of education should be to foster human autonomy.

Rhodes University senior lecturer at the Philosophy department, Dr Lindsay Kelland, was featured in the Sunday World’s phenomenal women feature for 2022.

Mapula Maponya from the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE), is the recipient of the 2020 Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Award for Community Engagement.

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A court order to disband municipal council jolts President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ruling party

* Examines essential philosophical questions about the experience of difference and the other in African societies * Explores identity and difference as it unfolds in African philosophical contexts both within and outside the African continent * Offers a critical analysis of the very nature and essence of difference that makes such manifestations possible

The Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE) at Rhodes University recently received a glowing appraisal for its flagship course, IiNtheto zoBomi, amid an increase in international attention.

The Rhodes University community is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr Allan William Buchanan Gray. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his wife, Gill, daughter Jennifer, and his two sons, William and Trevor.

By Karabo Dikobe

Do you suffer from the "challenge of being able to see what is right in front of you"?

I signed up for the IiNtetho zoBomi course because my friend told me that it was relatively easy. As a second-year Law and Journalism major at Rhodes University, my goal was to lighten up my load as much I could. A course without tests and exams sounded like a dream. I thought I could pass with relatively minimal effort.

Rhodes University on Thursday said Director of the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE), Professor Pedro Tabensky, had developed a learning module for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) under its Education for Justice (E4J) initiative

“The revolutionary impetus emerges in situations of radical injustice, where the political order advantages one group at the cost of another and where those in power are largely deaf to legitimate demands for justice from the underclass,” Pedro Tabensky, Professor of Philosophy, Rhodes University.

2400 years ago in the gardens of Academe in Greece a group of people committed to understanding their lives established what today we call the ‘academy’ (or university).

ST GEORGE’S College is among 22 schools from around the country that will benefit through an initiative made available by Kingswood College in Grahamstown with the roll out of a “By Youth For Youth” (BY4Y) initiative.

I want to love my brother as one should love a brother.

Siyanda Centwa and Pedro Tabensky explore the implications of Ukwaluka (initiation).

Soccer takes away the pain.

We need to understand why it is the case that gang rape is happening so often in our township if we wish to address its destructive force.

Fellowships will initially be granted for one year, starting in January 2015 (but this date is negotiable), renewable for a second (and, possibly, subject to performance and funding, for a third year).

These are highly competitive fellowships for students interested in interdisciplinary work bridging basic theoretical socio-psychological and ethical concerns with concrete interventions aimed at encouraging ethical behavior.

I must confess to being rather fond of potholes.

Philosophers Lindsay Kelland and Pedro Tabensky explore what seems to logically follow from a comment made to a rape survivor by a man who seems to think that at some level rape is an acceptable practice.

My mother was raped by a church elder, something that would affect the rest of her life. This made what happened after, something even worse.

As the son of a Holocaust survivor and a refugee of mid-20th century turmoil, knowledge of the precariousness of existence has always been part of the fabric of my life, and has motivated me permanently to ask: How should I be in a way that pays respect to the suffering of my forbearers? Or, to put the point more generally, how should my people be?

USING the words of former South Africa president Nelson Mandela, Professor Barney Pityana will be "retiring from retirement" when he steps down as rector of the Grahamstown College of the Transfiguration at the end of the year.

The contemporary South African academic community has a rare opportunity. Unlike many other places around the globe

Community engagement is increasingly playing a key role in university life in South Africa, but the concept itself remains underexplored.

I cannot recall one constructive proposal to combat corruption coming out of the ANC or opposition parties.

The 'I' in the following article is fictional. He was created in order to highlight the very real issues discussed in this article.

We need to understand why it is the case that gang rape is happening so often in our township if we wish to address its destructive force.

SA deserves better than to be ruled by a party that flirts with totalitarianism, writes Barney Pityana.

The scandals that plague President Jacob Zuma don’t only call his integrity into question, but that of the office itself.

I am so tired of being afraid.

I came to study at Rhodes in 2013 after spending a year at Gadra Matric school, working to improve my matric results.

The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation in-conjunction with Rhodes University officially launched the Allan Gray Centre For Leadership Ethics

OUR reality is that too many who occupy positions of power, and are entrusted with the leadership are sorely wanting in the core values

This is a collaborative piece between learners from Ntsika Secondary School and Pedro Tabensky. The learners have been having conversations with him for a few months and wish through this article to reflect their thoughts and feelings about growing up in Grahamstown East.The result is a reconstruction of these conversations.

Noluthando was allegedly possessed by izizwe (spirits). Her boyfriend from Katlegong, it seems, put them inside her.

Rhodes University senior lecturer in the Political and International Studies Department, Dr Sally Matthews will deliver a paper entitled “(White) Privilege and Institutional Culture” at Rhodes University Institutional Culture Roundtable on Saturday (14 September) at Gavin Relly Post Grad Village.

Our city is born of conquest: divided, broken, brutally unjust - and beautiful in the eyes of some of its inhabitants. But most in our town are not in a position to see much beauty.