A taste of distance learning: writing short courses for PET
PET Volunteer and Doctoral Researcher Xander Ryan explains how he created short courses to improve learners’ study skills and help them progress.
We feature the latest news about our work and share views from our staff and other prison education experts.
300 calls from 60 prisons: a busy start for PET’s Advice Line
Just over two months after launching the PET Advice Line, we have already taken over 300 calls from 60 prisons. PET’s Advice Manager reflects on its impact.
PET calls for education to be reinstated in children’s prisons
PET’s Chief Executive responds to the new report on the issue of separation of children in Young Offenders’ Institutions.
Pentonville students create book celebrating partnership with PET
Creative Arts students at HMP Pentonville have created a commemorative book marking the prison’s 20-year partnership with PET.
HMP Pentonville students draw up prison education manifesto
As part of HMP Pentonville’s commemorative book marking their partnership with PET, residents have written a manifesto for improving prison education.
PET launches Peer Mentor course co-written by people in prison
PET has launched a new accredited Peer Mentor course, co-written by prison peer mentors and the people they support.
“The IT’s great but that’s not enough”: Prison university partnerships and digital technology
In this blog post, we hear about how the University of Southern Queensland in Australia brought has made its courses available to students in prison through in-cell digital technology.
Coronavirus: an update for prison and education staff
We are doing all we can at Prisoners’ Education Trust to continue to provide courses and to offer support to learners in prison.
Donate to our COVID-19 appeal
Right now the courses and support PET provides are more vital than ever. That’s why we need your help to launch our first ever freephone advice line.
“Keep well, keep hopeful, keep connected” – how universities can support prisons during Covid-19
In this blog, we hear from Learning Together and Rowan Mackenzie about how they have adapted their work to meet the challenges of the lockdown.