The BBC's online education service, BBC Jam, is to be suspended after commercial online companies made complaints to the European Commission.BBC Jam costs each licence fee contributor 14p per month, with the BBC pledging to invest £150m over five years.
Acting BBC Trust Chairman Chitra Bharucha said in a statement: "Despite a rigorous approval process involving the BBC Governors, the Department for Culture Media and Sport, and the European Commission resulting in extensive conditions on the service, BBC Jam has continued to attract complaints from the commercial sector about the parameters of its activities."
I find it ridiculous that the BBC is prevented from fulfulling its public service remit EDUCATING OUR NATION'S CHILDREN because it's deemed anti-competitive, yet it's perfectly OK for them to hand the TV-over-IP market to Microsoft.
It seems such a long time ago that Acorn had their computers in most UK schools and even longer ago that I was sitting in a classroom playing games on the BBC Masters that the school had bought. Several games stand out in my memory and these include (in no particular order): Yellow Brick Road, Little Red Riding Hood and the one that I'm sure most of you who used school computers in the late 80s will remember, Granny's Garden.
