It's not a new thing to have game development companies branching off to start schools for games education (Microforte and AIE have been around for a while), but the news in the US is...
"Levelord, of Ritual fame, and some folks at id, and Ensemble Studios have teamed together with Southern Methodist University to create a new school for people that want to work in the video games industry."
(sourced from Slashdot).. While this might not be terribly exciting news for us, the discussion over at Slashdot over games education is definately a good read. Head on this way :)