Her good school results resumed and she won a scholarship to attend Newnham College in Cambridge in 1925.

Pernel Strachey at Newnham told her to apply to Queenswood School after her other applications failed to get her a job.

[1] She wrote up her observations as "A Comparative Study of the Aims and Objectives of American and British Education for Girls".

[2] On the journey home she chanced to meet Baron Stamp who was the chair of the Queenswood governors.

[3] Essame turned down other offers of headships as she waited over ten years for Trew to begin to partially retire in 1944.

She was in demand to represent the British Council and she was sent abroad to India and Pakistan, Nigeria and Russia.