Academics
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Leavers write the Western Cape Education Department examinations. Post matric students (of which there are few) can write three A-levels. The pupil-teacher ratio is 15:1. 2008 was the first year of the new National Senior Certificate examination.
- School scholarships
The College offers numerous scholarships, mostly to new students in grade 8 which last until grade 12, covering certain percentages of the tuition fees of the college. The recipients of these scholarships are expect to maintain a high standard of excellence in their respective award areas, and scholarships may be forfeited if this is not done (For example, if a music scholarship recipient does not continue with music until grade 12, he will lose the scholarship). The current scholarships are:
- The Bishops Scholarship for all-rounders
- The Theron Scholarship for academic excellence
- One Major and two Minor scholarships for academic excellence in each of the three subjects of Mathematics, Science, and English, each of which has a separate scholarship examination which must be written by prospective students
- One Major and two Minor scholarships for musical proficiency, for which prospective students are required to play an audition
- The Claude Brown Organ Scholarship is for organists who wish to enter a post-matric year at the College. They are expected to contribute to the active musical life of the College chapels, and act as assistant organist to the Director of Music
- The Bishops Rugby Scholarship which is awarded to a grade 10 boy who excels in rugby
The school also awards bursaries. These include:
- Bursaries for the sons of Old Diocesans, so that needy students can attend the school.
- Bursaries and remissions so that diversity targets can be met.
- A two-thirds remission for sons of the Anglican clergy.
- Rhodes Scholarship
Bishops is one of only four schools in the world to offer an annual Rhodes scholarship since 1901 to an ex-pupil to attend the University of Oxford. This is a result of the school having been part of the initial Rhodes Scholarship Experiment. When approached to help formulate the plan for the scholarship, Bishops was suggested by Mr Ernest Kilpin (later Sir Ernest, after he was knighted for services to the Union of South Africa) as a suitable school for the experiment and Cecil Rhodes agreed. Like Bishops' founder Robert Gray, he mistrusted purely secular education.. A shortlist is selected yearly from boys who are matriculating that year and there progress is monitored. After completing their first degree, a student from the shortlist is awarded the scholarship for further studies at Oxford. Starting with the 2012 shortlist, alumni of St George's Grammar School, St Cyprian's School, Herschel and The LEAP School 1 will also be eligible for selection to the Scolarship
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