The Bishops Rhodes Scholarship

Rhodes Scholarship for Post Graduate study at Oxford University

The Bishops Rhodes Scholarship applications for 2021 are open till 15 August 2020, please click here for more info and application processes.

In 2015 the Bishops Council passed a resolution that extended the scope of eligibility to St George’s Grammar School, St Cyprians School, Herschel Girls School and LEAP1 School.

Extract from the 2015 resolution

3 - Eligibility for Scholarship

The Chairman of the College Council informed the meeting that Council had on 11 May 2015 decided to further widen the scope of eligibility for candidates to be awarded the Bishops Rhodes Scholarship, as set out below:

“It is therefore proposed that the Rhodes Scholarship, in addition to being open to past pupils (of least on year) of Bishops, St George’s, Herschel, St Cyprians and the LEAP1 School allows the following young man and women to apply for and to be awarded the Bishops Rhodes Scholarship.

Sons and daughters of

Members of present and past academic and support staff of Bishops who have served or will serve Bishops for at least five years;
Present and past parents at Bishops who have, or have had, or will have had a son at the school for at least five years;
Present and past members of Council who have served the school for at least five years;
OD’s where such son or daughter was educated in South Africa for at least five years.”

The changes are to allow applications for the scholarship from other parts of the larger Bishops community.

Council would continue to review the eligibility requirements for the scholarship from time to time, in conjunction with the Rhodes Trust.

The changes had been welcomed by Mr Justice Edwin Cameron and Adv. Ndumiso Luthuli of the Rhodes Trust, and by the Warden of Rhodes House, Mr Charles Conn.

A request had been received from the Rhodes Trust the previous day, 19 October 2015, that Council consider that the proposed terms of expansion be made to include all of the school currently affiliated to the scholarship.

Essentially where it says Bishops, it is now meant to include St Cyprians School, St George’s Grammar School, Herschel Girls School and LEAP1.