
New PET CEO: “Education must be a priority in every prison”
Jon Collins talks the challenges prison education is facing, digital learning, and how people in prison can help shape the charity’s future.
Jon Collins talks the challenges prison education is facing, digital learning, and how people in prison can help shape the charity’s future.
After eight years as CEO, Rod Clark reflects on leaving Prisoners’ Education Trust and the positive future he foresees for the organisation.
Learning Together began in 2014 as an action research initiative. Through our research, we aimed to develop a valid questionnaire that could be reliably used to evaluate the experiences and growth of students – based both in prisons and at universities – as they participate in Learning Together.
PET’s Welsh Prisons Project has pioneered many of the changes we have made to improve our support for learners in recent times.
Working with learners, PET’s Welsh Prison Project have made an animation about the successes and achievements of people studying in prison.
A collaboration between Learning Together, Coracle Inside and HMPPS is yielding exciting developments in the provision of digital learning.
A new connected short course delivered at HMP Hull is supported by chromebooks through Learning Together’s partnership with Coracle Inside.
PET funded over 1000 people to take courses in prison last year, helping them work towards their dream of a better life.
Seven changes that would make a real difference to prison learners and help to unlock their potential. Our suggestions to the Education Select Committee’s inquiry.
Despite the suspension of face-to-face education during lockdown, HMP Pentonville has found ways of keeping educational partnerships running and creating learning opportunities for people in prison.
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