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. 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 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. Editors 1910–1938: George Sydney Freeman 1938–1940: Donald McLachlan 1940–1952: Harold Dent 1952–1969: Walter James 1969–1989: Stuart Maclure 1989–1997: Patricia Rowan 1997–2000: Caroline St John-Brooks 2000–2005: Bob Doe 2005–2007: Judith Judd 2007: Wendy Berliner (acting) 2008: Karen Dempsey 2008–2013: Gerard Kelly 2013–2020: Ann Mroz 2021–present: Jon Severs Tes Global 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