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UK's Bletchley Park to soon begin new cyber training mission
2016-11-24
[Reuters] It was once the home of Britain's codebreakers during World War Two. Now more than 70 years later, Bletchley Park is preparing to host the UK's first national college of cyber education, with a first intake of students starting in September 2018.

Work is under way to revamp several derelict buildings on the site where mathematician Alan Turing cracked Nazi Germany's "unbreakable" Enigma code.

The new school for 16- to 18-year-olds, which will sit beside the historical attraction and the National Museum of Computing, will take 100 students in its first year. Forty percent of their curriculum will consist of cyber studies.

The plan for the school, which will be part publicly and part privately funded, was unveiled by Qufaro, which calls itself a not-for-profit body formed by cyber security experts, as part of an initiative to establish a UK national cyber security hub.

"Bletchley Park we felt was a natural home for a cyber security college because it's building on the innovation and the work that took place in the Second World War, bringing it up to date and making it relevant again," said Tim Reynolds, deputy chairman of the National Museum of Computing and a director of Qufaro.
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  Reading an interesting book about WWII and the contributions of the Polish Resistance that makes the claim it was actually Polish math professors that provided the British with the key to cracking the code in 1934.
Posted by: Capsu78   2016-11-24 12:30  

#1  A little late getting into the game, aren't they?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-11-24 10:49  

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