Successful applicants to the Single Intelligence Account apprenticeship will pursue a foundationdegree course in communications, security and engineering over two years at De Montfort University in Leicester.
It is for the books of early instruction, in a great degree, to lay the foundation on which the whole superstructure of individual and national greatness must be erected.
He had a deep foundation in technology dating back to his undergraduate degree in computer science and engineering, but continuing through to his deep collaborations with CIOs over the years.
Mr Milburn's clash with Mr Brown over the degree of financial freedom to be conferred on foundation hospitals, coupled with Mr Blair's failure to stand up to the chancellor, led to his decision to quit the cabinet, a frustrated and disillusioned man.