Four ways to transform prison education
Novus’ Peter Cox responds to a blog by Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor, and outlines how changes to how prison education is…
Prison Education and Offender Learning
City & Guilds Foundation funds Breakthrough to support prisoners into apprenticeships in innovative new partnership
The City & Guilds Foundation and Breakthrough, the UK’s first apprenticeship provider to recruit directly from prisons, have entered a new partnership to support prison…
Looking to the Future for FE and Skills
In this article, we talk with Paul about the past and looking to the future of FE and Skills. Q. We recently had the Ofsted…
Behind bars, thinking of Mars: Life in space project opens up to prisoners
In a futuristic collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and digital learning company Coracle, inmates are being encouraged to design spaceships and moon bases and…
Novus and Total People join forces with Timpson Group to pioneer first apprenticeships for prisoners
Leading prison education provider also partners with Greene King to offer prisoners new routes to stable employment upon release Leading prison education provider Novus and…
Milton Keynes College Group and RMF Construction to pioneer prison apprenticeships
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced that from 1st October, prisoners will be eligible to take up apprenticeships, and Milton Keynes College Group (MKCG)…
Why real-world training has never been more important for those behind bars
Getting a job is one of the single most important factors in preventing former prisoners from reoffending once they leave prison. Being employed provides them…
The Chaotic Educational Divide in Prison
In 2016, I was honoured to be asked to sit on an expert panel with Dame Sally Coates, senior members of HMPPS, and leaders of…
New AoC Report: The Vision for Prison Education – A provider perspective
AoC new report: Prisoners are learning in “Victorian” classrooms with funding a “race to the bottom” – educators say Colleges are calling for proper funding…
Time to Unlock Prison Education
As Einstein was supposed to have said, (although probably never did), “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” I’ve…