Between education and industry, obviously. Nick was speaking to a mixed audience of industry practitioners, lecturers and students at Games:Edu and gave out some pretty good advice for brokering relationships between education and industry.
Nick (and Rare) is keen to see more people doing it, ‘evangelising’ about games, engaging with academics and students.
Two sections then, first up, […]
I’ve been to Manchester (didn’t stay for the football though) for Games:Edu and was intending to post live from the event, unfortunately, an unscrupulous wireless provider was unwilling to part with a connection for less that £350.
However - here are my thoughts on (must stress) Matt’s own thoughts which are not in any way representative of either Evolution […]
Suzanne Ashley, Skillset’s brand new Publishing Sector Manager, and the newest author on the Skillset blog.
Suzanne will be keeping us informed and intrigued by goings on in the publishing sector and you can keep track of Suzanne’s posts, or follow the brand new publishing category to keep up to date.
Beijing’s Olympic Games will open on Friday August 8, 2008, at 8pm local time. In the marketing and media sectors there is ferocious activity as companies race to prepare. But as Universal McCann discuss in a recent paper, in many respects this race would be happening even without the Olympics as China’s marketing infrastructure is in a big […]
I’ve been meaning to do this update for a few days - but that has been useful to run this topic by a few people. My interest has been sparked by attending a BSAC event on Monday night in the West End, which focused on new models of funding for the games industry, and ways […]
Swifter, higher, stronger; the Olympic motto, as established by Baron de Coubertin.
Last night a number of leading lights in different industry gazed into the crystal ball and tried to predict what the creative media industry might look like in 2012, and what skills and jobs will be needed too.
BBC Sport, Pearson, PA, Ascent Media, radio […]
As reported earlier, we have been looking at the issues facing the creative media industry through the lens of Engineering and Technologists. As a result, we are now looking for a consultant to help:
- Examine and describe the engineering needs of the different sub-sectors of the creative media industry
- Examine and describe existing Engineering qualifications […]
Aw - how come I always miss the fun stuff. I’m away on holiday unfortunately, but I love the idea of an ‘unconference’ for games full of informal fun types of learning and playing and things.
Saturday May 3rd then. Will you be going?
All the details: www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamecamp
Exciting times - this week Skillset has partnered with Nicktoons to launch a, frankly, brilliant competition for students on our network of industry approved degree courses.
Nicktoons, gawd bless em, have agreed to see pitches for 10 second short films from 80 (eighty, thought I needed to spell it out) students. The winning five will see […]
It’s exciting and fantastic - a whole world of questions and responses - what do you think about your industry, what are your skills needs, and, how old are you?
We’re asking all these and more of everyone in the Creative Media sector, there’ll be so much information, I’m sure we’ll struggle to find uses for […]