Expert’s festival feedback helps make up for missing live audience as QE’s musicians shine
April 20, 2021
With coronavirus restrictions this year putting paid to QE’s usual spring concert for some of its most advanced musicians, the School instead staged a special online Grade 8 and Diploma Festival with an expert external appraiser. The event, which is now live on the Music department’s YouTube channel, featured 13...
Ten years on from Fukushima – depicting the legacy of the disaster in photography and prose
December 16, 2021
Academic Makoto Takahashi, who has earned an international reputation for his research into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan, has curated an exhibition on the disaster, which is being shown at the Royal Geographical Society. The exhibition, which runs until 23rd December, marks the tenth anniversary of...
Elizabethans for life! Spanning the generations at annual alumni dinner
November 23, 2021
Elizabethans from every decade from the 1940s through to the 2020s turned out to the 125th Old Elizabethans Association Annual Dinner. With 76 in attendance, the event in the Main School Hall was the first such formal occasion since the start of the pandemic. As has become traditional, guests included...
Exploring the lingering legacy of Japan’s worst modern disaster
December 8, 2021
Old Elizabethan Makoto Takahashi, a global expert on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan, gave a group of current sixth-formers a special invitation to an exhibition he has curated. Featuring photography and a number of essays, the exhibition, which marks the tenth anniversary of the nuclear disaster...
He’s built a successful IT company. Now Warren is planning a new venture to satisfy his passions for coffee, art and music, too.
December 16, 2021
After an early career switch from advertising to IT, Warren Lipman has never looked back, building and adapting a company that now employs more than 20 people and supports thousands of customers across the globe. After leaving the University of Greenwich with a degree in Real Estate, Warren (OE 1986–1988)...
David Farrer: QE as I knew it; its impact on me
April 4, 2022
I am 79. I am the oldest of three children. I was at QE from 1954–1961, the end of the E H Jenkins era. [Jenkins was Headmaster from 1930–1961]. My parents married in April, 1939, and my father spent most of the first seven years of marriage in the army....
