UK government to deliver ‘cyber curriculum’ to tackle cyber security skills gap

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The UK government is to provide cyber security training to teenagers in schools as part of its plans to address the cyber security skills shortage.

 

The new Cyber Schools Programme aims to teach and encourage school children aged between 14 and 18 to develop key skills needed to work in the growing cyber security sector.

 

Recent figures from Tech Partnership found that there are currently already 58,000 cyber security specialists in the growing sector worth £22bn a year. However, recent reports have highlighted a worrying skills shortage across the sector.

 

The program could also go some way to helping to defend UK businesses in the future against online threat, which is said to have been threatened by almost 200 high-level cyber-attacks in the past three months.

 

It is also targeted towards defending businesses in the UK against online threats, which has significantly been threatened by almost 200 high-level cyber-attacks in the past three months....

 

Ref: < http://www.cbronline.com/news/cybersecurity/uk-government-cyber-curriculum-tackle-cyber-security-skills-gap/ >