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An e-newsletter produced by Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet for all our old boys.
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We trust you will enjoy reading it and will also take the opportunity to visit QE Connect, a social and business network for our alumni.
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Despite the most difficult circumstances this term, Queen Elizabeth’s School has continued in extraordinary times to do all of our ordinary things well – not, of course, that there is anything ordinary about QE and the Elizabethan community.
I have been concerned by national media reports about children being educationally disadvantaged during lockdown. Thanks to the hard work of teaching and support staff, QE boys do not find themselves in that situation. |
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Having experienced the highs and lows of life as an élite rower, paralympian Tom Aggar is now revelling in his new career as a teacher.
Tom (OE 1995-2002), who until he retired was the longest-serving member of the GB Para-rowing squad, won the gold medal in the Arms-Shoulders Men’s Single Scull at the Beijing Paralympics in 2008, and was crowned World Champion in the same discipline in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011. He bowed out of rowing while still competing at the highest level, having taken bronze at the Paralympics in Rio in 2016. |
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Architecture student Nabil Haque has enjoyed stellar academic success in his final year at Jesus College, Cambridge, winning a string of prizes and accolades.
Nabil (OE 2010–2017) graduates with the highest-possible class of degree – Double First with Distinction – and an overall score of 80 out of 100, which is the top mark recorded by the university’s Architecture department in five years. |
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After starting his professional life at one of London’s élite Magic Circle legal firms, Oliver Harland has since single-mindedly forged a career that combines Law at the highest level with his passion for sport.
While he relished the occasional opportunities he had to work on sports cases during his years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and even embarked on a somewhat gruelling distance-learning Master’s degree in Sports Law in his spare time to pursue his interest, it was not enough. |
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Visesh Gosrani’s career has taken him from the City of London to the tech hubs of Shoreditch, then across the Atlantic to Silicon Valley, before bringing him back full-circle to the City.
Through all these changes of location, there is one common thread around which he has built his career: insurance. “Whilst most people regard this facet of life as nothing more than an administrative pain, insurance has provided me with a passion where I continuously find a new challenge to keep me on my toes,” he says. |
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After two life-changing years in Shanghai, Anand Dattani is back in London, with a new job, a fresh perspective on his career and his own reflections on what a post-pandemic world will mean for business.
His current professional life as a Business Development Specialist with start-up PowerPay – a company offering Chinese e-payment services to European shops so they can attract high-spending Chinese tourists – is very different from the six years he spent with Deutsche Bank. |
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Fitness trainer, author and podcaster Akash Vaghela has no regrets about his decision to switch his university application from Law to Sport Science.
A decade later, he is running an innovative, personalised coaching service that has helped more than 2,000 people around the world, disrupting an online industry where, he says, poor performance is rife. |
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Medic Neeral Patel is loving life in Toronto, where he is on a two-year mixed research and clinical fellowship – even if, at first, he wondered if making the move had been a big mistake.
“I vividly remember landing in Toronto a year ago with a very uneasy feeling in my stomach, thinking ‘what on earth have I done?’ Life in London was relatively comfortable, and I had left my family, friends and partner, Jasmin, in the UK. I was certainly excited about the opportunity, but naturally quite apprehensive at the very beginning.” |
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The School is always delighted to hear from our former pupils,
whether they would like to get involved in QE events, or simply have
news to share about themselves or former classmates. To contact our
Alumni Office, please email alumni@qebarnet.co.uk
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Queen Elizabeth's School, Queen's Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5
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Through this e-newsletter, through QE Connect and through the alumni section of the Queen Elizabeth's School website, the School is aiming to strengthen its links with former pupils.
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If you wish to find out more about having an active role in supporting the school as a past pupil, please contact:
alumni@qebarnet.co.uk
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