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UK trade publication

Tes , formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement, 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. An edition for Wales, TES Cymru, was also published between 2004 and 2011. 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.

TES first established a website in 1997, when it briefly experimented with a paywall. It was revamped after the newspaper's relaunch in 2007 and is now split into distinct sections, including 'School Solutions', 'Jobs', 'Teaching resources' and 'School portal'. Jobs is home to all the vacancies listed in the TES magazine and is updated daily. 'School solutions' includes various software products that TES offers to schools and teachers. Over 13 million educators are members of the site and use it regularly. 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. In February 2015, TES Global launched an open marketplace, which allowed teachers to buy and sell teaching resources. The TES portal is now home to "the world's largest online community of teachers", with more than 13 million registered users.

In 2015, TES bought Hibernia College UK, at the time the largest provider of subject knowledge enhancement courses in England. This later became Tes Institute, which offers routes into teaching as well as safeguarding and training courses for teachers. TES products include Class Charts, a classroom seating plan and behaviour management tool, and Provision Map, software that schools used to manage special educational needs. These products were produced by Edukey, before that company was bought by TES in 2016. They had previously won the best company award at the 2009 Bett Awards. In 2019, TES purchased Australian school timetabling business Edval. Edval was named as a top education service provider in Australia in 2021. In 2021, TES bought Glasgow based SchoolCloud, the company behind software that runs parents’ evening software used by over 8,000 schools. A BBC report on the software suggested that Covid restrictions were leading more schools to run virtual parents' evenings using SchoolCloud software. In March 2023 the Glasgow office was closed and the remaining SchoolCloud staff made redundant as TES centralised roles in its Sheffield and Fishguard offices.

First held in 2009, The TES Schools Awards are held annually to celebrate achievements by schools in the UK. Categories include a 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. Since 2012, TES has also hosted the Independent School Awards and since 2016 the FE Awards, aimed at the further education sector.