TES Global

TES Global is a digital education firm, providing networking and recruitment services to millions of teachers. It is owned by private equity firm, TPG Capital.

Business

Formerly known as TSL Education, the company publishes TES (formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement), a weekly UK publication aimed primarily at school teachers in the UK.

TES Global's revenues come from advertising – both digital and print – and it is a leading player in teacher recruitment.

However, it also offers a range of services targeted at teachers. It has 3.6m million registered users who have long used TES as a platform to freely share classroom resources. According to TES, more than 4.9 million resources are downloaded from the TES websites a week. In February 2015, TES made this into an online marketplace, where teachers could buy and sell resources they had created.

People

• Rob Grimshaw, CEO
• Tom Glover, communications director (from 2015); formerly senior vice president of corporate communications at Pearson
• Jim Knight, Lord Knight former schools minister; Chief Education Adviser to TES Global from 2015; Knight was previously Managing Director of Online Learning at TES Global.

Advisory board

• David Puttnam, Lord Puttnam
• Andrew Adonis, Lord Adonis, former education minister
• Patricia Morris, Baroness Morris, Conservative Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords; former Shadow Minister for Education & Skills
• David Willetts, Lord Willetts, former university and science minister
• Owen Lynch, former CEO of government ed tech quango, British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, BECTA

Contacts

• Website:www.tesglobal.com