The Director General of ELSPA Michael Rawlinson has today called on the UK Government to encourage students to specialise in traditional degrees like maths & physics. He was speaking at the Westminster Media Forum.
Rawlinson stated….”This is an industry of highly-educated, strongly-skilled experts, many have first class degrees in maths and physics from leading British universities, but there are too few graduates in these subjects. We as an industry are committed to building Britain’s high-tech skills base, but we want to see greater emphasis by the government to encourage students to take up these demanding subjects”.
Sentiments EA share. Nicely put Michael.
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Between ELSPA’s views and EA lets hope the rest of the industry listen.
Some of the people discussing skill issues like Iain Livingstone have no clue. He should be retiring not discussing whats relevance for kids to study. Plus he trads off the rep of Tomb raider a game that has been shipped off the to USA.
Rawlinson seems a great guy. More power to his elbow
Yes, the industry talks of a skills shortage. The it complains of thousands of people studying on game degrees that cant get jobs.
Poor messaging and agreement on this issue.