Gen Y Capital Partners is now accepting applications through its website and expects to begin the evaluation process in early 2012.

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It also supports Empowered's website, where prospective students take an online evaluation to see what training might best suit their needs.

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Prof Tymms, director of the Curriculum, Evaluation and Management (CEM) Centre at Durham, told the BBC News website he was very pleased at the findings as he had been "banging on" about the issue for a long time.

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An evaluation version of Autodesk Scaleform for Unity and mobile game development is currently available on the Autodesk Gameware website.

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