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The Rhodes Scholarship has faced controversies since its inception, primarily concerning the exclusion of women and Black Africans. Initially, the scholarship was limited to male students with Commonwealth of Nations , Germany, and the United States, a restriction that only changed in 1977 following the passage of the Sex Discrimination Act.
South Africa Cricketer William Elliott: Balliol: 1919 United States Historian and presidential advisor Edward Mason: University of Kansas Harvard University: Lincoln: 1919 United States Economist; dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration (1947-1958) and president of the American Economic Association (1962) Roland Michener
In 2009 she was promoted to senior lecturer and further to associate professor in 2014. In September 2018, she was appointed the pro-vice chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology , making her the first female to occupy that position.
The Scholarships continue over 150-years after inception of the idea. [6] In 2018 the prize money awarded is up to £5,450 per annum for an undergraduate programme and £8,250 per annum for a post graduate research programme. The prize money is still funded by the original money provided in Trust by Joseph Whitworth.
Other scholarships include the Craik Scholarship, the J.C. Hall Scholarship, the Luisa Aldobrandini Studentship Competition, the Paskin Scholarship and the Pelling Scholarship. Competition for these scholarships is very fierce as students from any country reading for any graduate degree—not only members of the college—can apply.
For graduate study, there are many scholarships attached to the university, available to students from all sorts of backgrounds, from Rhodes Scholarships to the relatively new Weidenfeld Scholarships. [157] Oxford also offers the Clarendon Scholarship which is open to graduate applicants of all nationalities. [158]
Athena SWAN (Scientific Women's Academic Network) is an equality charter mark framework and accreditation scheme established and managed by the UK Equality Challenge Unit (now part of Advance HE) in 2005 [1] that recognises and celebrates good practices in higher education and research institutions towards the advancement of gender equality: representation, progression and success.
Candidate of Sciences (Candidatus scientiarum – CSc., replaced by common Ph.D. in the Czech Republic in 1998 and by PhD. in Slovakia in 1996) Doctor of philosophy (Philosophiae doctor – Ph.D. or PhD., awarded since 1998 and 1996, respectively; requires at least 3–5-year doctoral study and coursework of 120-180 Credits)