TIMES MEDIA LAUNCHES ENGAGING MINDS SCHOOLS PROGRAMME

London: 31 October, 2007: Times Media, the publishers of The Times, The Sunday Times and Times Online, today announce that they have launched Engaging Minds, a programme aimed at primary and secondary school teachers.

Teachers are being encouraged to sign up to the programme at Times Online to ensure that they are kept up to date with the programme and relevant forthcoming features to be published in The Times and The Sunday Times.

They will also have the opportunity to request free activity packs themed around promotions with fun and educational ideas for classes relevant to the key stage which covers a particular theme. The first theme will be Ancient Egypt which runs in conjunction with The Times media partnership of the Tutankamun And The Golden Age of Pharaohs exhibition at The 02 from Nov 15th - August 30th and this weekend's Sunday Times Earth Watch promotion (4th November).

Katie Vanneck, Sales and Marketing Director, Times Media commented: "Engaging Minds captures the best of what we produce in The Times, The Sunday Times and Times Online that is relevant to schools. The programme is designed to stimulate interaction and learning in interesting, fun and thought-provoking ways; inspire and support teachers by providing material that is timely and relevant, and can be integrated into lesson plans or stand alone as required; and promote education by selecting topics that are relevant to children and appropriate to the National Curriculum. We look forward to working with schools and teachers to develop the programme for them."

For further information or to interview Katie Vanneck, please contact Sophie Bickford on 020 7782 7765 or 07793 053 883 or email sophie.bickford@newsint.co.uk