Apprenticeships, Prison education

First prisoners start work as apprentices after change in law

Up to 300 prisoners are expected to be recruited onto apprenticeships by 2025

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Prison education

Prison education: Ministers to tackle ‘disastrously overlooked’ issue of prisoners with SEND

Officials also pledge to provide prisoners wit education 'passports' and more in-cell laptops

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Prison education, Staff

Prisons face educators’ strike action over low pay

Their union claims prison educators have seen their pay fall by 25% since 2009

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Prison education

Fred Sirieix’s prisoner-run restaurants to expand to boost hospitality skills

First Dates star's charity turns prison mess kitchens into high street style restaurants and trains inmates in hospitality skills.

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Prison education

Five ways to create a prison education system for the 21st century

The education select committee is making the right noises around prison education, but these recommendations are important, writes Peter...

Jess Staufenberg
Peter Cox
Prison education

MPs call for overhaul of prisoner education assessments and in-cell laptops for learning

In a new report, the House of Commons education select committee highlighted what it called the 'cracks in a clunky, chaotic, disjointed...

Will Nott
Will Nott
Prison education

Inspectors find ‘enormous and enduring’ failures in prison education

Education and prisons inspectors joined forces to criticise the quality of reading education for prisoners and the found most...

Will Nott
Will Nott
Prison education

Government promises prison education service is coming – but when?

In-cell technology is set to be expanded and new employment advisors in prisons are being introduced

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Prison education

Education behind bars: five ex-prisoners tell MPs of their learning experiences

The quality of prison education came in for criticism, with one witness saying theirs was 'dreadful'

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon