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Sony UK Boss: The Time for Games in Education is Now

By james_fudge

Sony UK's top executive urged the government to hurry up and add games into the national curriculum. Speaking before the Frontiers Conference in London today, Ray Maguire said "the time is right now to do it."

"We shouldn't wait too much longer. A collaborative effort is absolutely required, it needs endorsement at the highest level, it needs someone in government to say we will do this," he added.

Maguire says that he is concerned that the government's austerity measures coupled with the recession have the potential to slow down technological progress in schools. He believes that games can be used to fill gaps caused by some of these cuts.

"We are deflated after the cuts," he claimed, [but] "we're looking for relevant opportunities for students and the teachers." Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).