Most of the TES Group, which provides news, recruitment and training for teachers was bought in December by asset-manager Providence Equity Partners. The bit that wasn’t is the university-focused journalism, conference and rankings provider Times Higher Education which is said to be for sale separately. There was talk in November that RELX, owner of journal-giant Elsevier was looking to buy THE, but apart for a   “nothing to see here” announcement there is silence on the deal.