I reported back on the need for more games designers to be trained in the UK - and someone pointed me to this Gamasutra news story
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23558<<8450 game industry professionals have lost their jobs since July 2008, says independent market analyst Wanda Meloni.
<<In an article in Gamasutra's blogs section, Meloni says that 75 percent of these, about 6300 employees, are from North America, and the rest are from Asia and the UK.>>