Shift in Educational Focus Towards Gaming as a Career Path

Muhtasari

• Skyline University Nigeria may have just taken one of the most important steps yet towards solving that problem.
• Rather than focusing exclusively on providing hardware, the emphasis is shifting towards building ecosystems where students can develop commercially relevant skills, experiment with emerging technologies and prepare.
• The first HP Gaming Garage in Nigeria may ultimately be remembered not because it was the first, but because it inspired dozens more across Africa.
• And when historians look back at the emergence of Africa’s gaming economy, they may identify moments like this as the point when the continent stopped preparing young people for yesterday’s jobs—and started preparing.
• It has challenged conventional thinking about higher education and signalled that gaming deserves a place alongside engineering, business, medicine and computer science as a serious pathway to economic opportunity.