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Schools are being encouraged to take advantage of free resources to boost cyber skills and set up aspiring young people to aim for careers in cyber.

Dynamic Cheltenham-based cyber firm, North Green Security, is empowering employees and businesses through education, providing SMEs with the skills they need to keep themselves safe from cyber threats in an ever-evolving digital world.

A record number of people are looking to embark on a new career in cyber this year through applications to the government’s Upskill in Cyber programme.

The Upskill in Cyber programme is part of the governments efforts to bridge a digital skills gap in the UK.

A speech from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Oliver Dowden at CyberUK in Belfast.

The UK’s new National Cyber Strategy is clear in its ambitions, but to fulfil them, we must double down on appropriate skills development, says ISACA director Mike Hughes.

Robert Lindsay (Matt Crossick/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Lack of support for the arts has led to low self-esteem in the industry, actor Robert Lindsay has said. The My Family star, 71, said the reopening of theatres does not mean times of hardship are over for self-employed and freelance workers and criticised...

The budget cuts follow a six-week consultation by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and the Office for Students, the independent regulator for higher education in England, that found arts education subjects were not “strategic priorities”. The deadline for consultation on the budget cuts, which may come into effect during the 2021-22 academic year, is today. Other proposals include increased funding for courses “identified as supporting the NHS”, including science, technology, engin...

The effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been far-reaching and among its collateral damage is the arts industry, which has been all but decimated and the creatives within it left out in the cold.  The arts, we know, are propped up by the self-employed. New or emerging artists, marginalised creators and fresh art school graduates, many with no outside support. Scotland’s creative industries are made up of 15,000 businesses employing more than 90,000 people (pre-Covid, at least). That ...

Charlotte Church says she is “disappointed” that the Government has not done more for the arts in the pandemic. The Government has launched a £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to save cultural institutions on the brink of collapse. But Welsh singer Church, 34, said more help is needed. ‘Not only is it really important to our economy but it’s vastly important to our wellbeing and culture.’ @charlottechurch says the government’s ‘retrain scheme’ for creative artists was insulti...