Welcome to our new website
Our new site is clearer, quicker and more accessible – a hub for supporters, prison staff, and alumni alike.
We feature the latest news about our work and share views from our staff and other prison education experts.
Most popular courses revealed
Read a rundown of 2018’s ten most popular courses and hear from some of our learners.
New prison education contracts create challenges and opportunities
In April, we’ll see the biggest changes in prison education for many years. As with all major change, this brings risks and challenges, but it also brings real opportunity.
Learning from our learners
We want to learn from the men and women who we fund – to gain perspectives that are honest, personal and rooted in reality. So recently we held workshops in three prisons to find out their perspectives.
“Prison leavers help make our universities diverse and inclusive”
The PUPiL widening participation event in November 2018 highlighted the positive effects that university-prison partnerships can have, with speakers from Unlock and the University of Westminster.
“Thank you for your brilliant support”
In this blog, our Head of Fundraising Cassie rounds up a terrific year of fundraising challenges and campaigns and makes clear just how important your support is.
Linguistic Foundations: Bringing English support to partnerships
Diana Scott supports students with English language and academic skills as a foundation for their further study. Here she discusses the important role English for Academic Purposes (EAP) support can play for prison learners.
PET appoints new Chair
Elisabeth Davies, a specialist in public policy, has been named as the new Chair of Prisoners’ Education Trust, taking over the position from Alexandra Marks CBE.
An interview with PET’s new and outgoing chairs
Elisabeth Davies has been named as the new Chair of Prisoners’ Education Trust, taking over the position from Alexandra Marks CBE. In this interview, the new and outgoing Chairs discuss the successes of the last six years and what the future holds for the charity.
Alexander Maconochie – a forgotten penal reformer?
In a speech first delivered at the PET Carol Concert, the charity’s President John Samuels QC offers his personal reflections on an important but little-known figure in the history of prison reform.