Launched in 1998, BBC Bitesize is one of the biggest education websites in Britain, with half of all children aged between four and 16 saying they use it. Almost 1.7 million pupils access it every week.
BBC bosses have hailed the service as a key part of the broadcaster’s founding ‘Reithian’ values to “inform, educate and entertain”.
The MoS investigation reviewed material on BBC Bitesize for pre-GCSE secondary school pupils aged 11 to 14.
In one extraordinary example, pupils are encouraged to play a game called Increasing Immigration, making decisions aimed at boosting the number of incomers.