Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong
Queen Elizabeth School, or QES and QE for short, is a secondary school in Hong Kong. The school was the first English as a Medium of Instruction co-educational secondary school founded by the Government of Hong Kong. It is located on a mound at the boundary of Sai Yee Street and Prince Edward Road West in Mong Kok, Kowloon.
The school was conceived in 1953 when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned. Later it was run in September 1954 but operated as an after school on the premises of King's College, until October 1955 when it moved to the present location in Mong Kok.The QES school camp in Tsam Chuk Wan, Sai Kung, New Territories was opened in 1962. With the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in 1997, the original school badge with a crown was changed to a new one with the logo of the Education Department. Later, the Education Department was replaced by the Education and Manpower Bureau, and the school badge was changed again.
The school's new annex was opened in September 2004.
School camp
Founded a campsite in Tsam Chuk Wan, Sai Kung District, the New Territories in 1962, Queen Elizabeth School is the only school in Hong Kong which owns a school camp.Camp Warden Association
The Camp Warden Association is responsible for organizing camping activities for students and to manage the condition of the campsite.- Training Course : A year-long program offered every year to S.3 students who wish to join CWA.
- Wardens in Training : Students in TC are called Wits.
- Wardens: Students who passed the course and are recognized as qualified member of CWA.
- Administration Board: Responsible for promotion and external communication with alumni and school officials.
- Instruction Board: Responsible for preparing training materials for Wits.
- Maintenance Board: Responsible for maintaining facilities in campsite.
Publications
- School magazines: published per year since 1954 when the school was founded. Issue 63 will be issued this year.
- 《未學集》: edited and issued by Chinese & Chinese History Society of the school per two years, formerly 《新苗集》. The last version is 《未學集五編》.
- Magazine for School Camp Golden Jubilee "From the Few to Many Camp 50 & Beyond"
- Other special magazines
Achievements
- As of 2023, QES counts 5 winners of the prestigious Hong Kong Outstanding Students Awards, ranking 17th among all secondary schools in Hong Kong.
- Alumnus Dr Law Ka-Ho holds the highest record of 10 distinctions in School Certificate Examination, and 7 distinctions in the Matriculation Examination. Sing Tao Daily highlighted him as the Summa Cum Laude. See the documented references in Section 13 on the Chinese Wikipedia page, and link to the Sing Tao news article.
Principals
- Cheong Wai-fung
- Arthur Hinton
- T. McC. Chamberlain
- H.N. McNeil
- Tan Peng-kian
- Su Chung-jen
- Chan Ping-tat
- Yeung Chi-hung
- Sin Chow Dick-yee
- Yeung Chi-hung
- Pang Cheung Yee-fan
- Tong Kwok-keung
- Chan Ka-wai
- Yuen Kwong-yip
- Eric Chan Cheung-wai
Notable alumni
Science, culture and art
- Ken P. Chong, Professor and researcher at the George Washington University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, https://www.nist.gov/, Fellow of ASME, cited in the American Men & Women of Science. Former Director of Mechanics and Materials at the .
- Manying Ip : Professor of Asian Studies at Auckland University, expert on multicultural & transnational research. Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities and Royal Society of NZ.
- Dorothy Y. Ko, Professor of History and Women's Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University.
- Hon-Yim Ko, Glenn L. Murphy Professor and Chair of Engineering, University of Colorado; Outstanding Educator of America, honored by the American Society of Engineering Education, Fellow of ASCE, cited in the American Men & Women of Science.
- Wing-Fai Leung, Reader in Cultural and Media Industries, King's College London.
- Fuk Kwok Li Director of Mars Projects, awarded NASA highest honours of Outstanding Leadership Medal and Distinguished Service Medal, cited in the American Men & Women of Science.
- Edward W Ng, mathematical scientist, California Institute of Technology, and NASA, Fellow of AAAS, cited in the American Men & Women of Science.
- Man-Chiu Poon, Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics and Oncology, University of Calgary; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
- Peter T. Poon, Telecommunications manager and space technologist on NASA projects to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun and Outer Solar System., profiled in Marquis Who's Who
- Patrick Tam, Deputy Director and Head of Embryology Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute; Professor, Discipline of Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney; Foreign Fellow of British Royal Society.
- Benjamin Wah, world-class computer scientist, Provost of CUHK, Fellow of AAAS & IEEE, cited in the American Men & Women of Science.
- Kon Max Wong, Director, Communications Technology Research Centre, Canada Research Chair Professor in Signal Processing, McMaster University; Honorary Professor of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College, London; Fellow IEEE; Fellow Canadian Academy of Engineering; Fellow Royal Society of Canada.
- Angelina K.Y. Chin, CIA, CRMA, is a retired executive of General Motors Co. and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago who has been extensively involved with The IIA, holding numerous volunteer roles, including chair of the Global Ethics Committee and the Audit Committee, and member of the North American Nominating Committee, Board of Regents, Professional Issues, and Education Products committees. She currently serves on the Internal Audit Foundation's Committee of Research and Education Advisors and has co-authored and reviewed several Foundation publications, including Sawyer's Internal Auditing, 7th Edition – Enhancing and Protecting Organizational Value.
Politics, economics and law
- Li Kwan-ha : former Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force
- Pansy Wong : New Zealand's first Asian Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister
- Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung : former Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong
Engineering
- Wun Ho-kit, researcher in transport engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology