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Friday, January 10, 2003
E is for e-education - The Guardian
The government's ruling on the BBC's controversial plans for what is claimed to be the world's first digital curriculum is a reasonable compromise over what was always going to be a very difficult problem to solve. From the point of view of teachers, parents and pupils, the prospect of the BBC providing a free curriculum for everyone using modern digital technologies is an unalloyed Good Thing and further proof of the value-for-money of a licence fee costing barely 30p a day. But out there in the real world there are lots of companies (including a Guardian subsidiary) that are providing competing services in the market place and which fear that their businesses may be affected, even undermined, by the presence of a monolith like the BBC.
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