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ABSA invests R2.4million in scholarships

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Nine Tenths Matric Mentoring Programme wins a GLOBAL AWARD

First Prize in the prestigious 2021 MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship

A record 52 Gadra alumni graduate from Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in 2021

For the first time ever, over 50 Gadra Matric School alumni graduated from Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in a single graduation ceremony, which marks a significant milestone in the journey to transform education in Makhanda.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 alumna’s empathy motivates her to write a book on obesity

A seed of an idea that emanated from her empathy about obesity, a growing problem world-wide, is what motivated a Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 alumna to write an unusual and provocative debut novel on the topic.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 sweeps the board at national three-minute thesis competition

Two Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 PhD candidates walked away with a first place tie in the national Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition last week.

June 17, 2.00 to 4.00 pm - ACC modalities session: ACC Rhodes - Doing research with society. The role of transdisciplinary, engaged research in re-configuring African studies

Speaker: Professor Nelson Odume, Institute for Water Research, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (Academic Coordinator: ACC Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网) Moderation: Professor Uchenna Okeja, Department of Philosophy Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (ACC Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网) Discussants: Katsia Paulavets (Senior Science Officer, International Science Council), Dr Akosua Amaka-Otchere (Kwame Nkrumah 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Science and Technology, Ghana)

Prof. Tally Palmer of Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 joined in Cardiff 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 virtual event on “AU-EU-UK collaborations: emerging opportunities and prior learning for water and resilience research”

Tally Palmer, from Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Institute for Water Research (IWR) and the Director of the ARUA Water Centre of Excellence (CoE), was involved as a contributor in an event that shared emerging lessons on themes of resilience, water security and multinational interdisciplinary research partnerships in the context of UK and EU funding programmes on 6th July. The event was organized by Dr Adrian Healy, a Future Leaders Fellow at Cardiff 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网. The event included presentations from existing projects in order to learn from previous programmes promoting resilience under UK funding. With a focus on practical examples of AU-EU-UK collaborations the event shared knowledge of past activities, future potentials and the opportunities emerging from national and European Union funding programmes. The event raised awareness and built prospective research communities.