• What We Do
Since 1989, Prisoners Education Trust has been providing access to broader learning opportunities for prisoners, to enhance their chances of building a better life after release.
We do this through a grants programme which assists over 2,000 prisoners each year to study distance learning courses in subjects and levels not available in prison.
We also provide advice and support, and we make the case for improving policy and practice.
• News
- 2011 Annual Lecture - "He who opens a school door closes a prison" (Victor Hugo), Learning to be Free in the Rehabilitation Revolution is the theme of the 2011 Prisoners Education Trust's Annual Lecture. Nick Hardwick, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, delivered this lecture on 18th October at Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf. To read the text, click here.
Prisoners Education Trust Report
"Good Will and Good Fortune". Obstacles and opportunities for Level 2 learners in local jails. By Dr Anita Wilson. May 2010.
• Projects
Whilst Prisoners’ Education Trust’s primary focus remains with providing funding for distance learning courses, over time the Trust has developed other projects which tackle key areas of interest – young offenders and offender learning policy, research and reform.
"Art can be a way in..."
Watch Pat Jones, Director of the Prisoners Education Trust in a filmed interview for the Open College of the Arts (OCA). She is followed by the artist and ex-prisoner Akiel Chinelo who reflects on his experience of prison and reads two extracts from his work. The Open College of the Arts works with the Prisoners’ Education Trust to enable students in prison to access their courses.
Our mission
- To offer prisoners access to, and support for, the widest range of education and training opportunities.
- To promote to policy makers and the public the importance of offender education.
Our vision
Our vision is that every prisoner has the opportunity to benefit from education.
REPORT
"Brain Cells: Listening to prisoner learners".
Report from the Prisoners Education Trust, Inside Time and RBE Consultancy.
March 5th. 2009
Contact Us
Wandle House
Riverside Drive
Mitcham
Surrey CR4 4BU
Tel: 020 8648 7760
Fax: 020 8648 7762
Registered Charity No: 1084718
Company Limited by Guarantee No: 4132595