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Video Games: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage students to study video game design degrees.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
15 Sept 2025
Answer
19 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage students to study video game design degrees.

  2. 15 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The government is committed to supporting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects, including computer games design courses, which are vital to the UK’s research base, innovation capacity and Industrial Strategy.For the 2025/26 academic ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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