How culture change could solve the cyber skills shortage

Is one more push all it will take to make the huge efforts in Gloucestershire to tackle the serious skills shortage in the cyber sector bear fruit?

Dears reader,

Welcome to the first edition of The Raikes Journal of the week.

We’re late to publish, so my apologies. We went looking for this story yesterday and ended up with an embarrassment of riches, deciding in the end to go with our original plan and save the other stories - for the moment.

That main lead is something of a follow-on from last Friday’s edition which talked about the potential of Berkeley in Gloucestershire and Oldbury in South Gloucestershire - if they are chosen as the locations for the next generation of nuclear power investment here in the UK.

Which let into a conversation about skills. Where are the staff going to come from, both to build it and to operate it, and who is going to train them?

And that made us think of another sector fast-emerging and being championed as a catalyst for future and driver of the much talked about Golden Valley Development - cyber.

While the Government acknowledges “significant improvements” have been made in training potential new ta…