In the pink: Zaki celebrates after winning Financial Times journalism competition
October 10, 2022
Zaki Mustafa was the “clear winner” in his age group in a prestigious financial journalism competition. In his winning essay on the impact of technology on money, the Year 11 pupil ranged widely, starting with the first known currency in ancient Mesopotamia and ending with consideration of how modern financial...
Crepes, a cruise – and commuting French-style
November 22, 2022
From their arrival in Paris to their departure three days later, QE A-level French students enjoyed their authentic taste of Parisian life and the opportunity for some language learning. Moving around on public transport, the boys took in the sights and used local specialist guides who spoke to them in...
Half a century on! School Captain’s 400th anniversary memories
December 14, 2022
As current Year 12 pupil Darren Lee gets ready to take over as School Captain in our 450th anniversary year, we asked the 400th anniversary Captain, Iain Lanyon, for his memories of that momentous year. He began by saying that he had in fact had other plans for the first...
From strength to strength
December 15, 2022
Akash Vaghela is continuing to grow and refine his fitness business – now billed as “the only place in the world entirely focused on helping you not only get into shape, but on learning how to stay in shape”. RNT Fitness has transformed more than 3,000 lives in more than...
47! Oxbridge offers for 2023 shatter existing QE record
January 26, 2023
Forty-seven pupils have been offered places at Oxford and Cambridge this year, easily exceeding the previous QE record of 40. Thirty-two offers have come from Cambridge and 15 from Oxford, spanning a huge range of subjects, from Engineering to Medicine and from Languages to Law. Headmaster Neil Enright said: “This...
As QE celebrates its 450th anniversary year, the 1973 School Captain shares memories of the 400th
March 22, 2023
With QE’s 450th anniversary year now well under way and thoughts turning to this week’s special service of thanksgiving in Westminster Abbey, Old Elizabethan Iain Lanyon, who was School Captain during the 400th anniversary celebrations in 1973, recalls his experiences during that momentous year. Iain began by saying that he...
Aftermath of a tragedy: QE old boy’s acclaimed exhibition on 2011 Japan disaster comes to Cambridge
March 29, 2023
An award-winning exhibition curated by an Old Elizabethan academic about the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that hit Japan in 2011 has returned to the UK. The exhibition, Picturing the Invisible, is now on at the Heong Gallery – a contemporary art space in Downing College, University of Cambridge, that...
A question of Economics: fun and games, with some serious thinking, too, in innovative subject festival
April 10, 2023
With events for all ages, QE’s Economics 450 Festival proved hugely popular with the boys. The festival featured academic tutorials and a lecture from Old Elizabethans, board games, a quiz, a meeting of QE’s Gresham Society for Economics and a special edition of the department’s periodical, The Econobethan. It was...
