TIGA to
Supply Guest Lecturers from the UK Games Industry to Higher Education
TIGA, the trade association representing the
UK games industry, will be introducing a new matching service connecting TIGA
university and college members with guest lecturers from the UK games industry.
TIGA have built up a pool of industry practitioners to serve as guest lecturers
in TIGA university/college members. This will intensify industry-academia links,
promote knowledge transfer and enhance the quality of higher education
provision, ultimately benefiting students and the wider games industry. Some
universities and colleges do not currently have strong connections with the
games industry. This new matching service will help to address this problem.
The new matching service for TIGA education
members will come into operation from November 1st 2011. TIGA education
members will be able to view the list of available guest lecturers on the
members’ area of the TIGA website at www.tiga.org
Industry guest lecturers will be available
from the following disciplines and areas: art, animation, audio, production,
programming, QA, careers, mobile/social/online, and the industry.
Lorna
Evans, TIGA’s Education Manager, will connect guest lecturers with education providers based on their specific
needs.
Dr
Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO, said:
“The UK video games
industry competes on the basis of its highly skilled workforce. The TIGA
education matching service will strengthen education-industry links, promote
opportunities for knowledge sharing and further enhance the quality and
offering of higher education.” TIGA’s new service will benefit the video games
industry, students and universities and colleges.”
Colin
Macdonald, from eeGeo Games, said:
“If the Scottish and
wider UK video games industry is to be the best in the world, then industry and
education providers need to work closely together. This TIGA initiative will cement
links between developers and educators and will be of great benefit to
students.”
Garry
Taylor, Audio Director, Sony, said:
“TIGA’s education matching
service will not just help universities. It will also benefit the UK video
games industry. It will enable participating developers to identify prospective
employees and to learn more about developments in higher education.”
Dr. Mike Reddy,
Future Technology, Games Development and A.I., Faculty of Arts and Business,
University of Wales, Newport, said:
“Industry
and academia have much to learn from each other. TIGA’s education service will
help to strengthen links between higher education and industry, benefiting both
parties. I strongly support this idea.”
Dr
Louis Natanson, Academic Director of the Institute of Arts, Media and Computer
Games at AbertayUniversity, said:
“Abertay University
has strong relationships with the local industry. This helps to make our
courses some of the best in the UK. TIGA’s initiative will help more
universities to provide excellent courses, to the benefit of students and the
wider games industry.”
Ends
Notes to
editors:
About TIGA:
TIGA is the
trade association representing the UK’s games industry. The majority of
our members are either independent games developers or in-house publisher owned
developers. We also have games publishers, outsourcing companies, technology businesses and universities amongst
our membership. In 2010 TIGA won two business awards including
‘Trade Association of the Year’ from the Trade Association Forum. In 2011, TIGA
won six business awards including ‘Trade Association of the Year’ from the
Trade Association Forum and ‘Outstanding Organisation’ from the Chartered
Management Institute. Richard Wilson won the ‘Leadership Award’ from the
Trade Association Forum and the ‘Outstanding Leader’ award from the Chartered
Management Institute.
TIGA is an Investors in People organisation.
TIGA is the trade association representing the
UK’s games industry. Our vision is to
make the UK the best place in the world to do games business. Our mission is to
fight for the interests of game developers. To achieve our vision and mission
we focus on the delivery of three strategic objectives: effective political
representation, profile raising and helping our members commercially. This
means that TIGA members are effectively represented in the corridors of power,
their voice is heard in the media and they receive benefits that make a
material difference to their businesses, including a reduction in costs and
improved commercial opportunities.
For further information,
please contact Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO on: 07875 939 643, or email richard.wilson@tiga.org.