The BBC has proposed replacing its axed digital education offering BBC Jam by “enhancing” its existing portfolio of services with new skills-based online educational initiatives.
BBC Jam was closed in March last year by the BBC Trust with the loss of 200 jobs following concerns raised by the European Commission about its commercial impact.
The corporation’s management has spent the past year developing proposals for a replacement online education service.
These proposals would meet the corporation’s educational purpose for children and young people by “enhancing its existing portfolio with some new online educational initiatives which are skills based”, the BBC said.
The BBC Trust said it had not received the full proposals or their costings – but once they had been “developed in more detail” it would submit them to a public value test later this year, which will include a market impact assessment by Ofcom.
