Welcome to the new academic year and welcome to our refreshed magazine. While you’ve been busy tearing down last year’s displays and stapling up fresh backing paper and borders in your classrooms, here at Tes, we’ve been doing the publishing equivalent.

From the many, many school visits we do and from talking to teachers at conferences and through social media, we’re always learning more about what the profession wants and how its needs are changing. So we’ve introduced some new features that we hope will help.

We revamped our website earlier this year. It’s now the most comprehensive education news website in the UK, bringing you breaking news, investigations and everything that’s going in schools and colleges in England and Scotland, the political machinations from Westminster, plus the latest pedagogical updates. It’s education’s go-to news outlet, getting some 1.7 million hits a month.

But we are also very aware that teachers are very busy people and don’t always want to sift through lots of stories or read news daily, so from this week we’re introducing in the magazine “The week in education”, a light romp through the virtual forest of content we produce each week online.

Every week, we’ll be rounding up the best bits from our award-winning team of writers, as well as our expert contributors from the classroom and beyond. Think of it as your very own VIP guided tour; what you go back and revisit in more depth on the website later is completely up to you.

And if you prefer to listen, not read, we’ve got that covered, too. Our weekly news podcasts give you a quick fix of everything that’s happening in the world of education. You can listen in the car or train going to work or while doing the ironing on a Sunday evening.

There’s also our popular weekly Podagogy podcast, featuring education giants such as Angela Duckworth, Uta Frith, Daniel Willingham, Maggie Snowling and Robert and Elizabeth Bjork. And, new for this academic year, we’ll be bringing you monthly English and maths podcasts from Jamie Thom and Lucy Rycroft-Smith.

Meanwhile, we’ll be packing the pages of the magazine with bespoke content you won’t find anywhere else. There’ll be in-depth looks at the latest research about pedagogy, neuroscience and psychology.

And we kick off this week as we mean to go on with a hard-hitting cover feature by genetics researcher Kathryn Asbury on the advances in her field that mean we can predict educational outcomes from a child’s genes. It is a disturbing and challenging read and forces us to confront some very difficult questions.

We will also focus on teacher-led research, tapping into the latest studies and asking practitioners to interpret them, drawing on their experience of practical application in the classroom.

The leadership pages will shift to focus on research-informed approaches to running a school, recognising the business management aspect of the school leader’s role and all the non-teaching challenges that heads face, for which they often receive little or no training.

And, of course, we always want to spark debate, so we will be highlighting the people who are questioning long-held assumptions and bringing experimentation and innovation to their practice.

FE readers will also see a change. There’s a big feature as usual at the back of the magazine, but there’s also a four-page round-up of all the happenings in the world of colleges in “The week in education” at the front.

And last but not least, adding to our popular weekly quiz on the last page, we’ve introduced a cryptic crossword to challenge you and test your knowledge.

Happy reading. We’d love your feedback.

ann@tes.com

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