Technology firm Raytheon has launched online apprenticeships as part of an investment in cybersecurity education.
Raytheon launched a new cybersecurity online apprenticeships programme in the UK in the latest stage of a £2m investment benefitting British technology education. The new programme will provide opportunities for 70 cyber apprentices each year, with plans in place to certify around 280 over four years.
The new two-year programme will offer an alternative career path to three and four-year degree courses. Apprenticeships like this develop in-house skills to face the mounting threat posed by cyberattacks and will include two specialist tracks: cyber intrusion analysts and cybersecurity technologists.
Apprenticeships and Skills Minister, Anne Milton said: “Cybersecurity skills are in increasing demand from UK businesses, so it is brilliant that Raytheon is leading the way and offering this high-quality apprenticeship programme. This is a fantastic opportunity for apprentices to gain the cutting-edge skills they need to kick-start a highly sought after and rewarding career.”
Apprentices will be paid full-time employees and will build skills by combining job experience with teaching sessions and lab time. At the end of the two-year course, successful candidates will be certified as qualified security practitioners.
Raytheon’s education investments include a Cyber Academy, which provides university students with an intense three-day workshop and capstone exercise on security skills, as well as bursaries offered to support specialist cyber education, workshops and mini-camps. Raytheon already provides hundreds of UK apprenticeships in engineering, in partnership with commercial businesses, as well as the UK’s armed forces.
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