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As we’ve said before on this blog this a must attend event for anyone with a vested interest in Higher Education and Games, and will be a key focus for discussions on our own accreditation work.
You can sign up now for the Manchester event on the 29th April:
www.gamesedu.co.uk/register-now-north
Or for the Brighton event (during Develop […]
The 2008 Develop 100 is out next month and there is (inevitably) a sneak peak online now, Develop reports that 26 UK studios made the top 100 this year which is good news considering the pressures UK devs are facing at the minute.
The full list is out with the April issue of Develop but you can […]
I love this. It satisfies my needs for things to have maps of them. If that makes sense. Anyway, I’ve added Skillset, so now you can look us up. Officially.
As the man behind this idea says:
It seems almost an essential tool when job hunting, to be able to easily see which companies related to the […]
Official news on the launch of this years Games Grads career fair and this years (double!) helping of Games:Edu. We’re supporting both and I think that it shows a great willingness on the parts of industry and education to work together.
Keith Stuart at the Guardian has summed this up:
Clearly the ties between the higher education […]
The long awaited DCMS strategy paper was launched today and evidently the key focus of government is on apprenticeships. 5,000 of them for the creative industries apparently.
The games industry of course has its own Modern Apprenticeship, developed in a partnership between Skillset, City College Brighton and NCSoft Europe, it looks that getting further industry support […]
Great news for students today as Microsoft announced a raft of free development software is now available to download free of charge as part of a program called DreamSpark.
The pack includes XNA Game Studio, Visual Studio and Windows Server software meaning that students can now get there grubby mitts on some top quality tools and […]
Big news today, if you like to compare media storage capabilities - Toshiba has announced that it is to halt production of HD-DVD’s leaving Sony’s Blu-Ray discs the whole of the market to play in.
I don’t think this is massive news for the games industry, as it has been typified for many years as a […]
The BBC has a report on student applications indicating a 6.7% rise in applications for places on degree courses.
However the commentary largely focuses on the lack of movement on diversity levels:
The breakdown of social backgrounds shows only a slight change on 2007: 29.6% from lower groups compared with 28.9%.
They quote a Lib Dem spokesman in saying:
University […]
OK - a lot of recent headlines to sort through at the moment, and definitely worth taking the time to pick through some of the seemingly conflicting headlines being generated by the games industry this week on the subject of graduate recruitment.
First up - Matthew Jeffery from EA who talks to gamesindustry.biz about graduate recruitment from EA’s […]
First up - apologies, I totally forgot to take my camera. However, aside from that the event was great, and completely highlighted the importance of networking in the animation industry. At first the networking party really did resemble a school disco - with huddles of employers talking amongst themselves and students lining the sides of […]