The organization that administers Rhodes scholarships, the prestigious grant program that sends promising students to the University of Oxford, is preparing to expand to other countries and will soon begin naming scholars from China. The expansion is part of an international push that promises to reshape a program created by the British mining magnate Cecil Rhodes more than a century ago to try to help secure world peace by educating top-tier students, mostly from British colonies, at his beloved Oxford. The Rhodes Trust, which administers the scholarships, said on Monday that the expansion was meant to cultivate a more diverse crop of young people from other parts of the world. Former President Bill Clinton was a Rhodes scholar, as were Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia, the former United States Supreme Court justice Byron White and several Nobel Prize recipients.

March 30, 2015 ・ From The New York Times