• Articles from Inside and Outside
Learning Matters provides a platform, if you are a prisoner or contribute to prison learning. This is your page.
- Accountability within peer mentoring programmes. Prisoner Billy Little calls for a pro-active approach by prisoner mentors.
- An article for Jill. Simon, a prisoner at HMP Stafford, writes about setting up an IT monitoring system for the Flexi Learn programme.
- Campaigner Bobby Cummines calls for greater access to OU materials in prisons.
- Challenging changes. Prisoner Billy Little writes about prison education in a time of penal austerity.
- Developing prison education in Malawi.
- Email a Prisoner. Developing service allowing emails in to prisoners.
- Family friendly conferences. Billy Little, serving prisoner, on including families in the debate on prisoner learning.
- Good News, Bad News. Clive Hopwood, from the Writers in Prison Network explains his views on Jack Straw's "Public Acceptibility test."
- Helping others helps you. Normans writes about supporting learners in prison.
- Inside News. The Open University's newsletter for prisoners.
- Internet for inmates in Norwegian prisons: IFI. Internet access, filtered by catergory.
- Interrupted education... interrupted life. By Dr Anita Wilson.
- Is prison education a privilege?
- It's all about Harry. By Danny, ex-prisoner & BSc (Hons). How prisoners help and support each other.
- Learning support at HMP Foston. By Pat Jones.
- Learning matters for prisoners' families too. Darcy gives us the prisoners’ partner perspective.
- Listening in prison. By Akiel Chinelo.
- My career in prison. By David, serving prisoner.
- Niace Thematic Paper. Reviewed by Billy Little, serving prisoner.
- Niace Thematic Paper. Two prisoner reviews.
- NOMS Update. East of England Test Bed News. April 2009.
- Open University 1. By Keith, prisoner & student.
- Open University 2. By Martin, prisoner & student.
- Open University 3. By Martin Stone, prisoner & student from Greater Manchester.
- Open University: not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. By Pat Jones.
- POLARIS ORAL Overview & status report. Delivering learning to prisons through safe web access.
- Prison Councils: Prisoners should be viewed as informed participants. Enver Solomon, Deputy Director, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
- Prison Councils. The User Voice model in action. By Craig Morrison.
- Prison education in Sweden. Integrated prison based and distance learning.
- Prisoners Education Trust Annual Lecture. 2009. Professor Ian Loader. Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.
- Rye Hill art room closure. Pat Jones, Director of the Prisoners Education Trust, considers the effect of cutting facilities on prisoner learning.
- Security clearance for working in prisons. Advice from the Ministry of Justice.
- Several small steps for me. Dan Ellingworth takes on the Great Yorkshire Run.
- Snapshot of distance learning. HMP Ford, November 2008.
- Spanish at Gartree. Why prison educators and learners are celebrating success.
- Ten years of offender learning. For over a decade Ann Creighton was Director of the Prisoners Education Trust. Here she reflects on the changes she has witnessed.
- The importance of being educated. By Billy Little, serving prisoner.
- Titan Prisons Consultation. Prisoners Education Trust Response
- Treading Water. By Billy Little, serving prisoner.
- Virtual Campus: An introduction to safe web learning?
- Vote For Me, "Democracy"! By Billy Little, LVCM (Hons), BSc (Hons), Soc Sci (Open), Dip SP & C (Open). Prisoner.
- Who do prisoners think they are? Why the Offender Learning Matters project became the Learning Matters project.
