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Key people | Alastair MacWillson[1][2][3] |
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The College of National Security[1][2][3] (also referred to as the National College of Cyber Security[4][5][6][7][8]) was a proposed cyber security school for 16-19 year-olds, scheduled to open in September 2020[9] at Bletchley Park.[1][2][3]
The initiative to create the school emerged from Qufaro,[4] a nonprofit organisation created by representatives of Raytheon, BT Security and the Institute of Information Security Professionals.
The college was to be located in Block G of Bletchley Park which was being renovated in 2017 with funding by the Bletchley Park Science and Innovation Centre. Bletchley Park Trust had no involvement in the cyber security college.[10]
The opening of the college, originally planned for 2016, was pushed back to 2020 as the application to open as a college in the Department for Education's Free Schools program had yet to be granted.[11] However, in April 2020 Bletchley Park Capital Partners (a private company run by Tim Reynolds) announced plans to sell off the freehold to the site for commercial development. Offers of between £4m and £6m were reportedly being sought for the three acre plot, for which planning permission for employment purposes had been granted in 2005.[12][13]