Higher education providers respond to demand from cyber organisations in Gloucestershire.
BBC Radio WiltshireThere are calls for more people to train in those areas to keep up with a "rapidly changing need".It is hoped degrees and apprenticeships offered by the University of Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire College will "fill the gap".
"Things like AI are rapidly changing the things that people need to do. For example, we know there are large financial firms who are crying out for cyber security professionals.The University of Gloucestershire has received funding from regulator Office for Students to offer scholarships in AI and data science to under-represented groups.
Zainab Loukil, academic course lead for the university's MSc in Data Science, said: "We know there are different areas causing the skills gap. Students are not in the industry because they are not represented here. Denisa Golkiewiczova and Fraser Freeman-Jones are studying the MSc course. Denisa said she probably would not have studied it without the scholarship.
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