No relaunch for £150m BBC Jam

The BBC's controversial £150m digital education project will not be relaunched in any form after the troubled service was suddenly pulled last year. By Owen Gibson

BBC bids to revive web education service

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. By Leigh Holmwood

MPs get web filter ‘dark ages’ warning

A Microsoft executive has told MPs that forcing software companies to install high-security filters as standard on all computers would send the UK back to the 'dark ages'. By Mark Sweney

A kick up the curriculum

As the government unveils plans to give children five hours of culture a week, we ask key figures in the arts, from David Bailey to Juliet Stevenson, what good it could do

Dawn of the digital natives

If you believe a scary US report, reading is on the decline. But, says Steven Johnson, it completely fails to consider the amount that we do every day on our computers

Would-be students checked on Facebook

A Cambridge University admissions tutor has admitted he checks up on students applying to his college by browsing their Facebook profiles. Jessica Shepherd and David Shariatmadari

Is our children reading?

Steven Poole: Technology gets the blame for turning children away from books, but it could just be making them literate in ways we struggle to understand