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The game might be up for Britain's gaming graduates by Tom Short |
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Many of the major computer game developers in Britain may be leaving because British graduates are not getting good enough training. A lobby group called ‘Games Up?’ have launched a new awareness campaign warning that people who take gaming courses at university are not being trained to a high enough standard. The group says that of the 81 video games degrees at British universities, only four are accredited by monitoring body Skillset. Ian Livingstone of Eidos Interactive, who is also a spokesman for 'Games Up?', said: "Universities are churning out generalist games designers who don't have the skills we need - they are doing these students a great disservice, and the industry a great disservice." But course leader of Computer Games Engineering at Northumbria University Dan Hodgson believes that the problem lies in graduates approaching this sort of degree with the wrong attitude. He said: "We have people who don't have the right mindset. We consistently tell them that this is one of the hardest courses we offer at this university. It's certainly not for the sort of people who want to laze around and play games for three years."
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