A bit of a departure for WWWTools this week as they look at the state of the debate surrounding the role of Australian public broadcasters in education. As readers Down Under will know, in August Australian Broadcasting cancelled 'Behind the News', a weekly summary of events accompanied with printed and online learning materials. The protests soon followed. The bulk of this Web Tools article is devoted to bringing to light ABC's online educational resources. The only thing really missing in this article is some sense of context: the pressure on ABC's educational services is not isolated. Just consider, for example, the ongoing campaign to force the BBC out of learning, documented in these pages. The supposition is that the provision of educational resources is not the proper role of a public broadcaster, but what's the alternative? This?
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