TES (magazine)

Times Educational Supplement
TypeWeekly trade magazine
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Providence Equity Partners
PublisherTES Global
EditorJon Severs
Founded1910; 114 years ago (1910)
HeadquartersLondon
Circulation58,007 (2014)[1]
ISSN0040-7887
Websitewww.tes.com

TES, formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement,[2] is a British weekly trade magazine 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.

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 Jon Severs. Since 1964, an alternative version of the publication, TESS, has been produced for Scotland.[3] An edition for Wales, TES Cymru, was also published between 2004 and 2011.[3] The lack of content about Wales since its closure has been criticised by the Welsh Education Minister, Jeremy Miles.[4] 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 percent 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.[5]

  1. ^ "Our reports". ABC. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  2. ^ "TES - Browse databases A-Z | UWE Bristol". www.uwe.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b "TES centenary special". TES website.
  4. ^ Miles, Jeremy [@Addysg_Cymraeg] (31 May 2019). "Disappointed reading today's @tes - another big feature on curriculum design, yet no mention of Wales/Welsh teachers who are designing the first ever made in Wales curriculum. I'm sure there are many teachers here who would be happy to share their experience with your readers" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ "TES". TES website.