Features
Rhodes University is a vibrant academic, research and cultural community.
Through profiling various features of this community you will learn what
makes Rhodes University a place - Where leaders learn.
The links below show some feature stories of Rhodes University.
Rhodes Drama production up for Afrikaans Theatre Prize
Rhodes University has become the first English institution to present an Afrikaans production at the Sanlam Prize for Afrikaans Theatre (SPAT) competition. The competition makes prize money of R270 000 per annum available for the development of new theatre productions in Afrikaans. It is open to drama departments at any South African institution for higher education that also undertake Afrikaans productions.
Local learners visit Rhodes campus
On Thursday 19 March an excited group of grade 11 learners from Nathaniel Nyalusa and Mary Waters High Schools set the foundations for a project of the Dean of Students (DoS) Office that will build bridges between Rhodes and our local school communities. Over the next couple of years potential future students from township schools around Grahamstown will be brought onto campus to experience a typical day in the life of a Rhodes University student.
Rhodes Students Excel in CA Qualifying Exams
Rhodes graduates who wrote the Professional Practice Exam (PPE) this year have obtained a pass rate well above the national average while one graduate who wrote the Financial Management Exam came third nationally.
The Rhodes University Department of Accounting is one of 13 universities in South Africa that has been accredited by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants to train students for their qualifying examinations for admission as chartered accountants. It also recognises the need to produce graduates of high quality in order to address a critical skill shortage in the profession in South Africa.
Rhodes University keeps fee increase down to promote equitable access to education
As national elections loom, affordability of higher education and student fees are likely to come under the spotlight along with the twin challenges of poverty and the need for development. Amidst a global economic crisis that has seen the basic cost of living rise exponentially over the past year, there are many hopeful school leavers who have had to relinquish their dreams of furthering their studies at university.
Highway Africa Chair of Media and Information Society Appointed
Prominent media activist Jane Duncan is to take up a post as professor in the Chair of Media and Information Society at Rhodes University.
This five-year contract position is sponsored by the Department of Communications, and operates within the Highway Africa project of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes.
Rhodes Proud of Distinguished Woman Scientist
The L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards for Woman in Science took place in Paris on 5 March 2009. An impressive institutional photo exhibit that celebrates and recognises the ground breaking achievements of the Laureates is on display in the Paris-area airports during the months of March and April. 15 million people from around the world will see these beautiful portraits taken by Micheline Pelletier.
Esteemed Justice Mpati Opens Rhodes Law Faculty
The Honourable Justice Lex Mpati, alumnus and member of Council of Rhodes University, and President of the Supreme Court of Appeal, officially opened the Rhodes Law Faculty on Tuesday, 24 February 2009.
Rhodes' Child Project is a Constant Winner
The Centre for Social Development at Rhodes University in Eastern Cape
is early childhood development’s unassuming trailblazer.
As winner of the yearly Absa and Sowetan Early Childhood Development (ECD)
Awards, it was placed first in 2007 and third last year in the ECD resources and
training organisations category.
Reclaiming Knowledge at SAARMSTE 2009
“At the start of each new year, as the Grade 12 external examination results are
released to anxiously awaiting students, analysed by earnest academics and crafted
into sensational stories by often over-zealous journalists, we are reminded that
Mathematics, Science and Technology (MST) education in Southern Africa is not
in order,” says Professor Marc Schafer, Head of the Education Department at
Rhodes University.
The Flanagan Scholarship Returns to Rhodes
Melissa Marsh, an honours student in the Music Department at Rhodes University
is the sixth Rhodes graduate out of the last eight recipients to be selected for the
prestigious national Flanagan Scholarship.
Rhodes has the most Mandela Rhodes Scholars for 2009
Rhodes University with a total of 6 300 students, 0.8% of all tertiary students
in South Africa, has won 14 % of the Mandela Rhodes Scholarships awarded
by the Mandela Rhodes Foundation seeing four Rhodes students out of a total
of 28 in the rest of South Africa become Mandela Rhodes Scholars for 2009.
Nyokong wins Prestigious L'Oreal-Unesco Award
Rhodes University’s Professor Tebello Nyokong, has won the Africa-Arab
State 2009 L’Oréal-Unesco Award for Women in Science for her pioneering
research into photodynamic therapy which looks at harnessing light for cancer
therapy and environmental clean-up.
Nyokong is the third South African Scientist to receive this award, and reaffirms
Rhodes’s place as one of the top research institutions in the country.
Dr Badat receives Inyathelo Award for Exceptional Philanthrophy
Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor, Dr Saleem Badat, is the recipient of The
Inyathelo Award for Exceptional Philanthropy, in recognition of an individual
philanthropist for his/her exceptional commitment to the advancement of philanthropy
and their dedication to social giving to bring about beneficial change in South Africa.
THE financial crisis has heralded the need for a new approach to the promotion of
sustainable business practices.
“Sustainability issues won’t go away; everything we do needs to be looked at through
that particular lens,” says Prof Gavin Staude, director of the Rhodes Investec Business School (RIBS).
Rhodes honour top sportsman and woman
Rhodes University recently held their Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards
over a sumptuous dinner. Sandimampita Razafimbola and Marli Vlok were the winners
of the Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards respectively and for both it was
their second time around.
From Content to Conversation
Rhodes’ School of Journalism and Media Studies has R8m to try and turn cellphones into
interactive journalistic devices over the next four years. The work takes place under a
project titled “Iindaba Ziyafika” – meaning “the news is coming”.
What is the point of studying the Humanities?
by Professor Louise Vincent, acting head of the department of political and international
studies and the acting deputy dean of humanities at Rhodes University
Inauguration of the Bantu Stephen Biko Building
As part of a critical appraisal of its past, Rhodes University has taken another step towards
the ongoing transformation of its institutional culture with the decision to rename the prominent
Student Union building the Bantu Stephen Biko Building.
Rhodes University Library Expansion Given The Go Ahead
After two-and-a-half years of extensive research and planning, the Rhodes University Council
has approved the construction of an expanded library building on the Grahamstown campus.
