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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 community . . . → Read More: Games Grads and Games:Edu 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 for . . . → Read More: Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy Today we launched an online consultation into the issues and potential fixes for the Facilities sector – post, studio, ob’s, kit hire, etc. It is the first time that this important part of the media industry will focus on it’s skills – so please do take the time to give us your views. The previous blogs . . . → Read More: What’s the problem and how do we fix it? 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 (in . . . → Read More: Dreamspark – free Microsoft tools for students 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 space . . . → Read More: HD-DVD Cancelled. Format Wars called off… The TV Team at Skillset held a fantastic event two weeks ago at BAFTA where they brought together the major movers and shakers from the TV world to define the skills issues facing the TV industry today. The recently released update from the session shows that multi platform skills are a big issue for the sector. . . . → Read More: TV Skills Strategy – its all going interactive. 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 might . . . → Read More: Student numbers rising |
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