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Students starting a university degree course in eSports at Staffordshire University
ON THEIR first week in class, a group of students are playing a first-person shooter video game in a sleek new digital studio. It’s their introduction to the degree in e-sports they’ve all enrolled in.
The group clicking away on their mice are at the University of Staffordshire, one of several British and US institutions launching programmes aimed at capitalising on the booming industry’s need for skilled professionals.
Ryan Chapman, 18, said his parents were “sceptical at first” about studying e-sports.
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