TES (magazine)

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Tes, formerly known as the Times

Educational Supplement, is a weekly UK
publication aimed at education
professionals. It was first published in
1910 as a pull-out supplement in The
Times newspaper. Such was its
popularity that in 1914, the supplement
became a separate publication selling for
one penny.
 Times Educational Supplement

Type Weekly newspaper

Format Compact

Owner(s) Providence Equity

Partners

Publisher TES Global

Editor Ann Mroz

Founded 1910

Headquarters London

Circulation 58,007 (2014)[1]

ISSN 0040-7887
Website www.tes.com

TES focuses on school-related news and

features. It covered higher education
until the Times Higher Education
Supplement (now Times Higher
Education) was launched as a sister
publication in 1971. Today its editor is
Ann Mroz. Since 1964, an alternative
version of the publication, TESS, has
been produced for Scotland.[2] An edition
for Wales, TES Cymru, was also
published between 2004 and 2011.[2] The
lack of content about Wales since its
closure has been criticised by the Welsh
Education Minister.[3] All are produced by
London-based company TES Global,
which has been owned by US investment
firm Providence Equity Partners LLC
since 2018. The TES no longer has a
connection with The Times newspaper.
Times Higher Education was sold in
2018 and is now a separate business to
Tes Global.

TES is published weekly on Fridays, at a

cover price of £3.50. Data from the
National Readership Survey Jan–Dec
2012 suggested that the average yearly
readership was around 362,000, of which
around 90 per cent of the readership
were in the ABC1 category.
In addition to the magazine, Tes runs a
popular website featuring breaking
education news and comment, teaching
jobs, forums, and classroom resources
that are uploaded by teachers.[4]

History
The idea for a regular section on
education in The Times was first
proposed in 1905 by J E G de
Montmorency, a barrister and writer who
later composed leader articles for The
TES. The first issue of the monthly
educational supplement appeared on 6
September 1910, opening with a witty
weather forecast for the UK's school
systems. King George V had recently
begun his reign, and the paper noted that
"some great resettlement of the English
school system seems likely to take
place".

Over its first decade, The TES established

itself as a paper for teachers, though it
was primarily aimed at those in private
and grammar schools. However, it
pressed for education reform from its
early years, calling in 1913 for
"Secondary Education for All".

In 1914, The TES became a stand-alone

publication, noting on the outbreak of the
First World War that "every great war in
the modern world has been followed by
changes in education". Two years
afterwards, while the war still raged, the
paper began to be published weekly. The
TES later explained that "the decision to
change into a weekly periodical was
taken to lend the support of The Times
more effectively to the movement for
reform in education which culminated in
the Fisher Reform Act of 1918".

Notable editors of The TES included

George Sydney Freeman, who was editor
for its first 28 years and Harold Dent, a
progressive former schoolteacher who
became acting editor in 1940. He put the
newspaper together practically single-
handedly during the Blitz. His editorials
pressed for "total reform" of the
education system, "based on a new
conception of the place, status and
function of education in a democratic
State, not a patching and padding of the
present system". This attitude chimed
with the radical thinking then going on
within the Board of Education. Mr. Dent
had regular meetings with its president,
Rab Butler, in the years building up to the
1944 Education Act.

The readership of The TES, once primarily

private and grammar school teachers,
broadened during the 20th century.
During the 1970s, the paper became
more supportive of Comprehensive
schools, when it had once defended
grammars.

In the 1980s, it became increasingly

concerned that political reforms might
overload or restrict teachers, particularly
the launch of the national curriculum and
league tables with the Education Reform
Act 1988. Its then editor, Stuart Maclure,
noted in 1985 that "the irony of the last
10 years, in which the politicians and
industrialists have clamoured for reform
and accused the educationists of
blocking it, was not lost on anyone who
cares to look back".

When the newspaper reached its

centenary in 2010, its former editor
Gerard Kelly, wrote: “If there is one
phenomenal, outstanding, amazing
development of the past century in this
country, it has to be that education has
liberated women in a way that was never
anticipated by the most liberal of
reformers, even by those far-sighted
individuals on The TES in 1910”.[2] In
September 2011 Tes changed from a
newspaper to being printed as a
magazine.

Ownership
At its start, TES was owned, like its
parent paper, by Lord Northcliffe. After
his death in 1922, the newspapers were
sold to the Astor family, and it was sold
on again in 1966 to the Canadian
newspaper tycoon Roy Thomson.[5]

Rupert Murdoch took ownership of the

newspaper in 1979. Murdoch's News
International restructured its newspapers
to set up 'Times Supplements Limited'
and by 1999, this became 'TSL Education
Ltd', which also published THE and
Nursery World. In October 2005, the
group was sold to Exponent, a private
equity group, who in turn sold it to
Charterhouse in May 2007.[6]

TES online is run by the London-based

'TES Global', which claims to be "The
largest network of teachers in the world",
and has been owned by the US-based
Providence Equity Partners global
investment company since December
2018[7]

Past staff and contributors

Staff journalists at TES have included
Simon Jenkins, who became editor of the
Evening Standard and The Times; novelist,
literary historian, and biographer Valerie
Grosvenor Myer; and Timothy Mo and
Frances Hill, who both became novelists.

The newspaper's columnists have

included Ted Wragg, Caitlin Moran and
Libby Purves. The pop singer Daniel
Bedingfield was employed to work on the
newspaper's website.

External contributors have included

Gordon Brown, who contributed
comment articles to the Scottish edition
of TES as a young lecturer in 1979. A
competition for writing by pupils in 1980
was won by Sacha Baron Cohen, then
eight years old.[2]

Editors …

1910–1938: George Sydney Freeman[2]

1938–1940: Donald McLachlan[2]
1940–1952: Harold Dent[2][8]
1952–1969: Walter James[2]
 1969–1989: Stuart Maclure[2]
1989–1997: Patricia Rowan[2]
1997–2000: Caroline St John-Brooks[2]
2000–2005: Bob Doe[2]
2005–2007: Judith Judd[2][9]
2007: Wendy Berliner (acting)[9]
2008: Karen Dempsey[10]
2008–2013: Gerard Kelly[2][11]
2013–present: Ann Mroz[12]

Tes Portal
TES first established a website in 1997,
when it briefly experimented with a
paywall.[13]
It was revamped after the newspaper's
relaunch in 2007 and is now split into
distinct sections, including 'Community',
'Jobs', 'Resources' and 'School News'.
Community offers online forums where
trainees, teachers and other education
professionals can connect with like-
minded people, discuss best practice,
gain peer to peer advice and support, and
have their say on the issues that matter
to them. Jobs is home to all the
vacancies listed in the TES magazine and
is updated daily.

Over 13 million educators are members

of the site and use it regularly.[14]
The Resources section is a platform for
teachers to share original classroom
resources, including lesson plans,
PowerPoint presentations, interactive
whiteboard resources, worksheets, and
activities. As of May 2017, there have
been over 1 billion downloads of
classroom resources from the Tes
platform. [15]

In February 2015, TES Global launched

an open marketplace, which allowed
teachers to buy and sell teaching
resources.[16]

The TES portal is now home to "the

world's largest online community of
teachers", with more than 13 million
registered users.[14]

In 2012, PPA (Professional Publishers

Association) awarded the TES website
the digital product of the year for the 3rd
year in a row and TES magazine was
named Business Magazine of 2012.[17]

Awards
First held in 2009, The TES Schools
Awards are held annually to celebrate
achievements by schools in the UK.
Categories include school of the year for
primary, secondary, special needs, and
early years, as well as healthy school of
the year and creative school of the
year.[18]

Since 2012, Tes has also hosted the

Independent School Awards and since
2016 the FE Awards, aimed at the further
education sector. [19][20]

See also
Times Higher Education World
University Rankings

References
1. "Our reports" . ABC. Retrieved
15 March 2017.
2. "TES centenary special" . TES
website.
3. {{cite
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4. "TES" . TES website.
5. "TES centenary special" . TES. 17
September 2010. Retrieved 21 March
2016.
. "TSL announces that it has been
acquired by Charterhouse" (Press
release). TES Global. 14 May 2007.
Retrieved 21 March 2016.
7. "Tes announces new owners" (Press
release). Tes Global. 17 December
2018.
 . https://www.independent.co.uk/new
s/people/harold-dent-1572842.html
9. Ben Dowell. "Times Education
Supplement appoints Karen
Dempsey as editor | Media" . The
Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
10. Ben Dowell. "Times Education
Supplement: editor Karen Dempsey
departs | Media" . The Guardian.
Retrieved 15 March 2017.
11. "From the Editor – Not a long
goodbye, but a heartfelt one" .
Tes.co.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
12. "Ann Mroz" . Tes.co.uk. Retrieved
15 March 2017.
13. Coughlan, Sean (3 June 2010). "The
first wave of internet pay walls" . BBC
News Magazine.
14. "About Us" . tes.com. Retrieved
8 January 2020.
15. "More than 1 billion classroom
resources downloaded from Tes" .
tes.com. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
1 . "TES Launches New Resources
Marketplace for Fast Growing Global
Teaching Community" (Press
release). TES Global. 25 February
2015. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
17. Deans, Jason (21 June 2012). "The
Week, Stylist, T3 and TES all double
 winners at PPA awards" . The
Guardian. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
1 . "TES Schools Awards" . TES website.
19. "TES Independent School Awards" .
TES Independent School Awards
website.
20. "TES FE Awards" . TES FE Awards
website.

External links
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