{"id":59303,"date":"2026-08-24T02:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-students-are-being-paid-2000-to-play-computer-games\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T02:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:01:43","slug":"why-students-are-being-paid-2000-to-play-computer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-students-are-being-paid-2000-to-play-computer-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Why students are being paid \u00a32,000 to play computer games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dray encouraged students to make use of every scholarship, bursary and opportunity available to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Many of these funds are available to more students than they realise, and everyone should be taking full advantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The average graduate in England leaves university with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyegp0dnq9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">debts of more than \u00a347,500<\/a>. Scholarships such as Roehampton&#8217;s can reduce student debt and provide additional financial support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas Cole, an esports player nicknamed Pac who specialises in the racing game Trackmania, said universities offering unique scholarships, including esports, encourages students academically by reducing the level of financial stress they might face.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Uni students being paid to play a game alongside doing their studies, it&#8217;s definitely cracking. If I had gone to uni, I would have loved that,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If it doesn&#8217;t let the academic side suffer, then I think being offered something like that really spurs on people to be better in gaming,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Allingham, student money expert from the Save the Student personal finance site, regularly advises incoming first years to seek out scholarships and learn more about what their university offers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t think there is enough awareness on scholarships,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is a lot of funding that goes unclaimed because students don&#8217;t know that they&#8217;re eligible for it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Save the Student helps share various scholarships and bursaries on their website. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we try to get across is you can get extra funding for so many different reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz647wlvg1do?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dray encouraged students to make use of every scholarship, bursary and opportunity available to them. He said: &#8220;Many of these funds are available to more students than they realise, and everyone should be taking full advantage.&#8221; The average graduate in England leaves university with debts of more than \u00a347,500. Scholarships such as Roehampton&#8217;s can reduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[649,1556,2243,800,665],"class_list":["post-59303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-computer","tag-games","tag-paid","tag-play","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59305,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59303\/revisions\/59305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}