article_snippet: Students are being encouraged to go to summer school… at GCHQ.
article_snippet: Agents at GCHQ unveiled plans for the summer school, the first of GCHQ kind, amid mounting warnings that Britain is one of the world’s major cyber-crime targets, and needs a new type of army to wage war against Britain digital foes.
article_snippet: the summer school will feature lessons from GCHQ’s own cybersecurity experts, as well as guest speakers from some of the world’s leading technology companies.
article_snippet: they will also learn about GCHQ’s role in defending the UK against cyber threats.
article_snippet: The programme will culminate in a ‘live’ war games-style exercise where they will be able to put the skills that they’ve learned into practice.
article_snippet: A GCHQ spokesman said: ‘The unique Cyber Insiders Summer School offers computer science students a fantastic opportunity to enhance computer science students cyber skills and to discover how GCHQ use a variety of technologies to protect the UK.
highlights_snippet: Britain's spy centre offering youths a £2,500 to train at summer school .
  