New country, new career: Hadleigh combines a life in IT with his long-standing devotion to service
July 16, 2019
Hadleigh Rush’s career has taken him from local charity fund-raising to a key role with software giant VMware, from working in Watford to a new life in the deserts of Arizona. Yet throughout his professional life, there is one common thread: “I have found a passion for giving back and...
New country, new career: Hadleigh combines a life in IT with his long-standing devotion to service
August 13, 2019
Hadleigh Rush’s career has taken him from local charity fund-raising to a key role with software giant VMware, from working in Watford to a new life in the deserts of Arizona. Yet throughout his professional life, there is one common thread: “I have found a passion for giving back and...
Counting the cost: Oxford professor speaks to QE economists on the effects of the pandemic
April 12, 2021
Sixth-form economists turned out in force for a lunchtime Zoom talk on ‘Covid-19 and the Economy’ from a leading Oxford economist. The speaker, Michael McMahon, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College, is a leading expert on communications in central banks....
The Independent newspaper salutes QE’s achievements
April 11, 2014
Queen Elizabeth’s School is highly praised in a lengthy feature in The Independent, following a visit by the newspaper’s Education Editor, Richard Garner.
The double-page spread by the respected journalist is devoted entirely to the School, highlighting its recent achievements and looking at the reasons for its...
Old Elizabethans help fill shelves of new Queen’s Library
December 15, 2014
Old Elizabethans are engaging enthusiastically in a special initiative to build the book collections for the School’s new Queen’s Library. In the opening three weeks of the scheme, 82 books together worth more than £1,000 have been donated by old boys through online Amazon wish lists. The Headmaster said: “We...
Music For All
January 1, 2016
Chris Shurety has devoted a large part of his life to enabling people to make music.
In fact, having started to play instruments himself at the age of 40, Chris (OE 1956–1963) founded the whole late-starter orchestral movement in 1983 by establishing the East London Late Starters Orchestra.
In 2017, Chris’s...
You are among the very best – now go into the world and help others: UCL Provost’s message to QE prize-winners
March 22, 2019
More than 130 prizes were awarded to boys in the top four years of the School at the 2019 Senior Awards Ceremony – one of the highlights of QE’s academic year. Parents, prize-winners, VIP guests, governors and staff assembled in the School Hall for an evening in which the achievements...
