RHODES University's vice-chancellor Dr Sizwe Mabizela on Sunday welcomed the university's new students, appealing to them to develop the ability and capacity to analyse, reflect and argue using knowledge.

Community engagement is core to Rhodes University, Vice-Chancellor Sizwe Mabizela told first-years and their parents at a welcoming ceremony at the Monument on Sunday 8 February.

Rhodes University senior management will engage the Rhodes University students in a discussion

Rhodes University celebrated a new University record of 75 PhD degrees at six graduation ceremonies over the weekend beating the previous record of 71 in 2014.

The recent news of an upsurge in xenophobic violence in South Africa is deplorable and unjustifiable. As in the past, Rhodes University continues to reject Xenophobia of any kind.

In the wake of Community Engagement week, the Jonga Pambili Sinethemba Project group, the recipients of the Vice-Chancellor’s Community Engagement Award gave a public lecture at Eden Grove Blue Lecture Theatre on 4 May 2015.

Fifteen universities from eight African countries have launched an alliance of research universities, at the African Higher Education Summit in Senegal’s capital Dakar.

Notice from Council: Update on the future of the name of Rhodes University and institutional transformation

The Rhodes University council has approved a plan to engage the greater Grahamstown community on the possibility of a name change for the 111-year-old academic institution.

We are delighted that you have chosen Rhodes University to partner you as you enter the next phase of your journey of intellectual growth

Welcome to Grahamstown and Rhodes University. We are delighted that you have chosen us as your institution of higher learning of choice

University protest actions of 2015 and this year have raised some fundamental questions

Not much thought was given to future implications when South Africa declared there would be 11 official languages, Professor Adam Habib said on Monday.

THREE brightly painted shipping containers could be the key to getting more disadvantaged township youth into Rhodes University.

Former white universities have to work harder in changing their institutional culture so that black students do not feel alienated.

Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What's holding them back?

While most stakeholders agree that South Africa’s higher education sector needs more transformation, what form transformation should take is still a matter for debate

RHODES University vice-chancellor (VC) Dr Sizwe Mabizela yesterday urged students and staff to report alleged rape and sexual harassment after campus support groups claimed at least 22 incidents had occurred this year.

Rhodes University has committed to taking a stronger stance against the perceived “institutionalised rape culture” at the institution after mass protests erupted last month‚ vice-chancellor Dr Sizwe Mabizela has said.

At approximately 6:45 this morning, two fires were started on the floor at the south entrance to the council chamber in the main administration building, using an inflammable substance.

Rhodes University has experienced a great number of protests since the beginning of last year, the first year that the university has had an African vice-chancellor at the helm.

Rhodes University’s Vice-Chancellor, Dr Sizwe Mabizela, was awarded the Dean’s Award on Friday, 1 July 2016, during the Choral Evensong at the Anglican Cathedral of St Michael and St George.

Over the past two weeks print and electronic media have reported on what has been characterised as a ‘financial crisis at Rhodes’.

Over the past two weeks print and electronic media have reported on what has been characterised as a ‘financial crisis at Rhodes’. I thought it would be appropriate that I contextualise the recent reportage on Rhodes University.

RHODES University, one of SA’s top tertiary institutions, which has faced major cash flow problems in recent months, insisted on Wednesday that it remained a "going concern".

Rhodes University has dispelled rumours that it is undergoing a financial crisis and will close within two months as reported in the print and electronic media over the past two weeks.

“Strijdom, you have tampered with the women, you have struck a rock, you will be crushed!”

On Monday, 08 August 2016, Rhodes University, at the request of the HEAIDS Office of the Department of Higher education and Training (DHET) and on behalf of the national post-secondary education and training sector, hosted the inaugural national Dialogue on Sexual and Gender Based Violence.

IT IS not difficult to recognise that what underlies the newspaper headlines on protests about higher education fees, curricula and colonial statues, is that the future of higher education in SA is being remade.

The current national debates on the financing of public higher education are critically important as they will shape the nature, quality and orientation of public higher education in this country

The Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Blade Nzimande, says he is hopeful that his current consultations with all stakeholders on 2017 university fees will conclude successfully, with an announcement in this regard expected to be made in mid September this year.

Rhodes University Vice Chancellor, Dr Sizwe Mabizela, has called on the government to double its funding in order to meet the increasing demand of students requiring financial assistance.

This day, 12 September 2016, marks the 39th anniversary of the brutal murder of Bantu Stephen Biko by the South African security police in a prison cell in Pretoria.

Rhodes University notes and welcomes the Minister's recommendations regarding university tuition fee adjustments for 2017. We particularly welcome Government's commitment to assist students who come from poor and working class families and those who come from mid-level income families.

Our public higher education stands on the edge of a precipice. The challenges confronting our system demand that we all work together to strengthen rather than weaken it further

Since the start of disruptions of the academic activities of our University on Tuesday, 22 September 2016, I have received numerous e-mail messages from students, academic and support staff and parents who are anxious and concerned about events on campus.

The academic programme resumed with lectures and tutorials at 10:30 today, following engagement with staff this morning, 28 September 2016. Protesting students disrupted lectures and some arrests were made.

At approximately 4am today, 1 October 2016, a fire was started at a basement entrance on the south wall of the main administration building, using a flammable substance.

We all seem to have forgotten about the biggest stakeholder in the debate, the South African family.

On 03 October 2016 the Minister of Higher Education & Training, Dr Blade Nzimande, convened a multi-stakeholder consultative forum in Kempton Park to deliberate and reach a common position on the crisis engulfing our public Higher Education system.

Unfortunately, Rhodes University experienced disruption in the early morning of 5 October 2016. Protesters invaded residences on the upper part of campus while students were sleeping. Fire alarms were set off as the residences were invaded. Tyres and two rain water storage tanks were also set alight in the immediate vicinity.

The University condemns this wanton damage to property absolutely.

As an important stakeholder of Rhodes University, I would like to apprise you of developments on our campus.

I have pointed out on numerous occasions that bigotry and hate speech will not be tolerated at Rhodes University. I am deeply distressed to see that despite warnings, there has been an increase of incidents that can be deemed to constitute hate speech and/or incitement of violence on social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. Allow me to reiterate:

Safety and security on campus are both an individual and a collective responsibility of all students and staff. On its part, the University has a responsibility to take all such steps as may reasonably be practicable to create a safe and secure university environment in which students and staff can learn, work and live.