Good Practice
Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) believes in working with others to achieve change and innovation, this section celebrates best practice by champions of learning, training and skills.
Here, we highlight some of the best examples of initiatives led by prisons, ex-prisoners or other charities to support people in prison with their learning or rehabilitation. Browse articles written by PET staff and partners below.
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PUPiL Blog: Inside 'Learning Criminology Inside' - Reflections from a student at HMP Risley
All | University/prison partnershipsIn today's blog we hear from a learner at HMP Risley about their experience studying alongside students from the University of Manchester.
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PUPiL Blog: Lessons from Learning Together in Latin America
All | University/prison partnershipsThis blog continues to look beyond the UK, this time to Latin America. Doctors Amy Ludlow and Ruth Armstrong, founders of Learning Together, tell us about what they have learned from visiting long-standing prison university partnerships in Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina.
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PUPiL Blog: Moving Beyond Frontiers with prison university partnerships
University/prison partnershipsThe European Prison Education Association (EPEA) is setting up its first special interest group which focuses on university-prison partnerships across Europe.
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Philosophy in Prison - Photo Series
All | University/prison partnershipsA partnership between Goldsmiths University's Open Book project came into HMYOI Isis to run a philosophy course with the prisoner and university-based students. PET captured on class on camera.
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PUPiL Blog: Going Straight to University in Birmingham
All | University/prison partnershipsSharonjit Kaur is a student at Newman University and an alumni of the 'Straight to University' partnership with HMP Birmingham. Here she reflects on her changing understanding of what is 'education' and discusses a recent event with Dr. Baz Dreisinger.
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PUPiL Blog: Mobilising PhD Researchers in prisons with the Brilliant Club
University/prison partnershipsThe Brilliant Club have a long history of using university partnerships to develop educational opportunities for marginalised groups. Now, their associated NGO AccessEd is seeking to develop this into a model that brings universities into prisons.
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PUPiL Blog: Learning Forever by PhD student and lawyer Menaal Munshey
All | University/prison partnershipsMenaal Munshey, a PhD student in criminology at the University of Cambridge, reflects on her experiences taking part in the Learning Together partnership between Cambridge and HMP Grendon, as both a student and later as a facilitator.
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PUPiL Blog: Making Links with British Convict Criminology
All | University/prison partnershipsNatalie Ellis, a student from Westminster University, writes about her experience on the Making Links project, a partnership between British Convict Criminology at the University of Westminster and HMP Pentonville.
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PUPiL Blog: Learning together beyond the prison gates - opportunities, threats and sustainability
University/prison partnershipsIn this week's blog Dr Helena Gosling reflects on the community-based partnership she co-leads at Liverpool John Moores University in partnership with the charity User Voice. Alongside thoughts on the deep benefits of this work, Helena highlights the challenges and threats to sustainability posed by insecure funding.
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PUPiL Blog: Through the looking glass. Re-imagining self through educational experiences in prison
University/prison partnershipsThis blog post comes from former learning Together student and researcher, Stacey Groundwell. Here she writes about her dissertation research and personal experience studying in HMP Full Sutton with other Leeds Beckett students as part of her criminolgy degree.