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83.2% of all A-Levels taken at Queen Elizabeth’s have been graded A, confirming the School’s position as one of the top boys’ schools in the country. Thirty-seven QE boys will now take up places at Oxford and Cambridge in the Autumn, representing a new record for the School.

This year also saw the number of A-levels taken at the School rise by 22%. The Headmaster, John Marincowitz, said, "Our A-Level candidates have achieved magnificently with 96% of all their examinations graded at A or B. I am delighted for the boys, all of whom will now take up top university places, and for their teachers who have achieved such splendid academic outcomes with a significantly enlarged cohort of boys." 

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Boys, parents and staff are celebrating following the publication of this year’s GCSE results. 96% of all GCSE examinations taken by boys at Queen Elizabeth’s were graded A*, A or B, with 83.1% achieving the top two grades. An impressive 138 boys in the cohort secured an A* in mathematics.

The Headmaster, John Marincowitz, said: “I am delighted by the boys’ performance at GCSE. All boys met the national measure of 5 + A to C grades (including maths, English and science), indeed the average points score per pupil equates with an average score of 10 A* grades per pupil. Teachers have maintained very high academic standards and provided their pupils with solid foundations for success at A Level and beyond."

Head of Mathematics, Gee Scarisbrick, reports that Andre Dalcher was amongst the top ten (out of 285777 entries) who achieved the highest overall marks in the June 2008 GCSE Mathematics exam.

In addition, out of 33784 entries in the June 2008 AS exams, Jenk Killich, Yathooshan Ramesh, Kalil Rouse, Daniel Rowe, Jian Siang Poh and Akhil Shah were amongst the top ten who achieved the highest overall mark.

Mrs Scarisbrick said, "Heartiest congratulations to them all for their excellent perfomances."

Promit Anwar, a Year 13 Economist, has been announced joint winner of The Royal Economic Society Young Economist of the Year Competition 2008. He will receive a £1,000 prize.

Nearly 400 entries – from as far afield as Singapore – were received for the 2008 competition. The task was to write up to 2,000 words on which economic idea or policy has most power to improve our lives. A wide variety of topics were covered by entrants including investment in sports facilities, the economics of happiness, micro-finance, mass collaboration and feed-in tariffs.

Promit chose international finance policy for his topic. He put the case for the creation of an international currency to supplant the dollar, arguing that this would help economic development by improving investment efficiency, ease macro imbalances and provide an international policy instrument.""

A team of twelve experienced Economics teachers met in June to read and judge every entry, identifying the shortlisted entries. The final judging process was performed by Charles Bean (Deputy Governor, Bank of England), Stephanie Flanders (Economics Editor, BBC) and John Vickers (RES President). The joint winner with Promit was Lizzy Burden from Withington Girls’ School.

Commenting on the results, John Vickers said: "The Young Economist of the Year Competition, now in its second year, has again excited great interest and brought forth impressive talent. Two entries stood out: Promit Anwar’s thoughtful analysis of global reserves policy and Lizzy Burden’s sharp and engaging account of the power of game theory. We are delighted to congratulate and announce Lizzy and Promit as the joint winners of the Royal Economic Society Young Economist of the Year 2008."

The competition was organised for the RES by tutor2u. Commenting on the 2008 competition, tutor2u’s Jim Riley said: "The overall standard of entries for the 2008 Competition was even higher than 2007 and a significant number of high quality entries made it through to the final shortlist. The RES Essay Competition is now firmly established as a challenging and rewarding extension activity for the increasing number of A Level and IB Economics students in the UK and overseas."

Promit has been congratulated by the Mayor of Barnet and received a special invitation to meet the Mayor in person. The official prize-giving is being held at the start of the RES Annual Public Lecture. This year the lecture is being given by Tim Besley (Bank of England MPC) and is being held at The Royal Institution of Great Britain on Tuesday 18th November 2008.

Old Elizabethan Tom Aggar has won a gold medal this morning at the Paralympics in Beijing. Headmaster, John Marincowitz, said, “Tom’s fortitude and courage is truly inspirational – what a magnificent young man!”

Tom, the reigning world champion, was pushed hard by Oleksandr Petrenko, but always held a slight advantage over the Ukranian and showed his strength in the latter stages to triumph in 5:22.09.

He said: "It has been an amazing journey since I started rowing one-and-a-half years ago. To come to the Paralympics and end up on top is incredible." 

Tom is 24 and a graduate of Warwick university. He was a pupil at Queen Elizabeth’s between 1995 and 2002.

Read the BBC’s coverage of Tom’s victory here.
Read Tom’s profile here.
Read Tom’s latest blog entry here.
Watch an interview with Tom here.

Two of Queen Elizabeth’s music students achieved exceptionally high marks this year in their public exams.

Rowan De Souza gained one of the ten highest marks in the country in GCSE Music, while Jason Poon was one of the top ten students in the country taking A Level Music Technology.

Rowan has now embarked on the A Level Music course and Jason is starting his degree in modern languages at York University.

Kieron Howe, Director of Music, said, "Congratulations to them both for these extraordinary achievements."