A notice has been published (see the link below) signalling the Scottish Government’s intention to extend the current Glow contract with RM Education for 15 months after its expiry on 15 September this year. The contract will be signed after a 10 day standstill period.
In parallel the Scottish Government is continuing with the tender exercise for a new ‘Integrated Application Suite’ for Glow (tools and services such as email, calendar, web conferencing etc). We expect to make a decision on this by the end of May. For reasons of commercial sensitivity we cannot comment on this process in any further detail.
The future of Glow must focus on the needs of the pupils and teachers who use it, and this step has been taken to secure continuity of service for Glow users. Education Scotland and the Scottish Government are committed to working with these users, ADES and others stakeholders as we transition towards a new Glow.
The Scottish Government will continue to fund the current version of glow at the same time as planning the introduction of a new version