Background
Mike Halliday, TechEd Programmes Ltd, discussed Supporting FE Courses with Cyber Experience at this month’s SWCSC Networking Meeting.
Cyber Security Education & Industry
- Cyber Security education and the trend of neurodiversity students within the Cyber community
- South West Cyber Futures Programme – building a cyber skills pipeline of the region
- Need to find a way of engaging students with cyber security
- Students are looking for a journey and would like someone to train them for the careers they are interested in
- To feel they have a relationship or an employer within the Cyber Security industry
- Skills gap for how education deals with industry
Pilot Programme
- Committed to collaborating and working together
- Committed resources
- Identified and met with colleges
- Shared costs
- Committed to CPD journey (feedback loop, steering group)
- Industry find it hard to communicate with young people in a way it resonates
Programme timeline:
Expect that after the programme the students will go onto apprenticeships, University or starting their career face on.
Partner Ecosystem – Sharing Delivery
It is important to understand how an organisation measures their ROI:
- Sustainable skills pipeline
- Supporting a cohort of 20 students per year
- Developing skills in a structured manner over 2 years
- Accelerating skills to enhance quality of talent pool
- Social value solution
- Enables supply chains to comply with social value conditions
- Regular evidence and social media coverage of impact on learner journeys
- Employer/ technology of choice
- Feelgood factor: paying it forward (existing staff)
- De facto career destination for cyber students
- De facto technology standard for cyber security
- Staff CPD (continued professional development)
- Training on workshop delivery
- Experience of interacting with the next generation of talent
- Continuous feedback loop to embed and enhance security