Mar 18
When the knives come out for Jam…
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ok that’s the last bad title for posts on this subject! This post is entirely as a link to John Connell’s post. I couldn’t agree more, so thanks to John and Joe Wilson for bringing this issue back into perspective again.The loss of any ‘free’ resoures is always a big loss for schools and departments strapped for cash – resources that any teacher can pick and choose from, or use in a variety of different ways and situations.

We need to let people know how we feel about this loss – not just speaking to each other.

John has a list of useful names to get in touch with. This sounds like a great idea to me!

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[...] Ministers North and South.  Got my links to do so from John Connel’s blog and got that from Andrew. I can’t help thinking that we have a commercialism versus progress thing with this. And [...]

marlyn.moffat » I just get annoyed! wrote on March 19th, 2007 at 9:28 pm

 

Whilst I agree that this resource should stay in the public domain there is one issue I would like to comment on. BBC Jam is not a free resource it cost the UK tax payers over £150 million. As I tax payer I want it back!

Kenneth McLaughlin wrote on March 19th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

 

Just on this issue Kenneth – it didn’t just cost the UK tax payer – it cost the TV licence payer – which is a bit of a double edged sword in my mind. I have a sister that doesn’t have a TV – therefore doesn’t pay a licence. She does have broadband though, so should she have wished, she could have looked at the BBC resources – yet she didn’t pay for them.

I on the other hand pay Sky for my television service. No pictures are received in my property by a conventional ariel, yet I still have to have a TV licence. It would be a really easy process for Sky to prevent my box from receiving BBC channels, or them handling the BBC tax licence fee (as they did when they introduced a broadband service by paying BT the line rental costs).

If the choice was have my licence fee back, or have educational resources that anyone could use, then keep my money – I’d rather be educated than rich.

ab wrote on March 20th, 2007 at 10:53 am

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