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Recognition

Achievements and certificates

Awards, shortlists and qualifications, each with its issuer, its date and a link to the source. Anything that cannot be checked is worth less than something that can, so this page is built to be checked.

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Awards and honours

  1. 2026

    John Locke Institute

    Shortlisted, John Locke Institute Essay Competition 2026

    Shortlisted in the Economics category, answering the question "Should we fear a cashless society?". The competition is open to students worldwide and draws entries in the thousands, so a place on the shortlist puts an essay in a small fraction of a very large field. The essay is published here in full, with its charts and its references.

    Read the essay

  2. August 2026

    Yale University

    Selected for Yale Young Global Scholars 2026

    Admitted to the Innovations in Science and Technology session of Yale Young Global Scholars, a selective residential programme at Yale for secondary school students from around the world.

  3. 2026

    Tonbridge School

    GCSE results

    Grade 9 in Mathematics and Drama. Grade 8 in Biology, Physics, English Language, English Literature, History and Religious Studies. Grade 7 in French. Chemistry stands at a 7 and has been submitted for a remark. Russian was taken a year early, in 2025, with a grade 9.

Certificates and qualifications

Academic programmes

  • August 2026

    Innovations in Science and Technology

    Residential summer programme at Yale. Skills recorded: leadership and communication.

    Yale Young Global Scholars
  • July 2025

    The Business of Economics

    Virtual course with a capstone project, covering mortgages, micro and macroeconomics and regional economics. Valid to January 2036.

    Rice University

Work experience and simulations

  • 1 August to 1 September 2026

    Virtual Work Experience Programme

    A sustained programme rather than a short simulation: four hours of scheduled sessions each week, additional team work between them, and a final presentation that was graded.

    Stripe
  • May 2026

    Two Day Business Work Experience ↗

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    YP x KPMG
  • April 2026

    Virtual Work Experience

    Skills recorded: banking.

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    Lloyds Banking Group
  • April 2026

    Finance Exploration: Virtual Work Experience

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    Investec
  • April 2026

    Barclays LifeSkills

    Virtual work experience.

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    Springpod
  • March 2026

    Barclays: Finance

    Skills recorded: business and finance.

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    Springpod
  • March 2026

    Goldman Sachs Operations Job Simulation

    Virtual job simulation. Skills recorded: attention to detail and cross-functional teamwork.

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    Forage

The narrative record of what these relate to sits on the timeline, and the writing itself is indexed under essays.