What ever happened to education on TV?

The great statement of the purpose of mass media to educate, inform and entertain really needs to be looked at in these current times. Those of a certain age will recall the days of schools programmes being shown on both BBC1 and ITV but with the advent of daytime television in the UK they were shunted off to BBC2 and Channel 4 but they were silently dropped from both channels in the last few years. The days of the Open University on during weekend mornings are also long gone with students needed alerts to tell them when a programme linked to their course was on. And adult education programmes that for example taught forgien language are now gone. Some will say that in the age of the internet you can learn anything who needs to watch TV programmes but it is rather sad to see TV relinquish one of it's responsibilities in such a fashion.