The Times Educational Supplement (TES) has announced plans for an autumn term relaunch as a full colour paper and new glossy magazine.
Bernard Gray, Chief Executive of TSL Education:
The Times Educational Supplement was launched in 1910 as a free insert in The Times newspaper. In 1914 it began publication as a weekly stand-alone title selling for one penny. In 1971 the then owner, The Thomson Organisation, launched the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES). In 1981, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (then already owner of The Sun and News of the World and soon to take a major interest in Satellite Television UK - the precursor of Sky TV) acquired the whole business of Times Newspapers Ltd from Thomson - including TES and THES. In 1989 Times Supplements Ltd changed its name to TSL Education Ltd. In October 2005 a ‘buyout shop’, Exponent Private Equity, acquired the education businesses from News Corporation making TSL Education a stand-alone business. As well as the TES and THES, it also publishes Nursery World.“The new TES will comprise a modern, redesigned newspaper with strong news and features content and a glossy, modern magazine, (plus new, full colour, jobs sections). The new TES will be a trusted source of news, information and advice for teachers and the education community and will provide an unrivalled service in print and online for education professionals and advertisers.
“The new full colour format will enable us to offer full colour to readers and advertisers throughout the paper for the first time.
“The paper will continue to be first with education news and will explain and analyse what matters to teachers and the education community and why. There will be new content relevant to teachers’ careers and professional lives, including incisive columns and dedicated sections, and it will be easier to find. as well as a strengthened online presence.
“The new magazine will combine the personal and professional sides of teachers’ lives and complement the main paper by appealing to those who want more than hard news, with features and insights into teachers’ working lives. There will be new specialist sections that will be relevant without being hard work, upbeat without being unreal.
“Our online presence will be greatly strengthened - with new content and resources, better navigation, an enhanced jobs site and better ease of access for advertisers and for job seekers.
The Times Educational Supplement is the leading education publication in the UK selling around 70,000 copies per week (source: ABC). It is available in the library, along with the THES.