GLOW
Client: Learning and Teaching Scotland
Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) commissioned Guardian Professional to produce
a new online news service. Glow is a national schools intranet, digitally linking
Scotland’s 800,000 educators and pupils, which supports Scotland’s Curriculum for
Excellence. Glow is funded by the Scottish Executive and managed by LTS.
The brief was to create a stimulating e-learning classroom resource that aids teaching
and learning, while encouraging pupils to take an interest in current affairs. The
resulting website, learnnewsdesk@LTS, engages young people with the important issues
of the day in a challenging yet accessible way.
The website covers international, UK-wide and Scottish news stories. Guardian Professional
leverages the editorial expertise of Guardian journalists and their knowledge of
the education sector to ensure the site is updated daily with news stories, which
are also published in Gaelic. The site also features podcasts, an extensive news
archive, news in pictures, useful web links, pupils’ news and comments, tips for
writing news reports, classroom activities, news quizzes and curriculum links.
Guardian Professional and LTS piloted the service in June 2007 across six local
authorities, with an official launch at the Scottish Learning Festival in September
2007. All Scottish schools will have access to learnnewsdesk@LTS through Glow when
the intranet is rolled out.