Prison
education / adult education
•Prison
education and adult education - partners at the margin
–Prison
education has tended to be a marginal aspect of prison policy, systems (and
funding...)
–General adult
education is marginalised compared with the higher profile sectors of
higher education and schools, within the overall spectrum of education
systems (and funding…)
but rather as an
intrinsic and important part of a country’s adult education and training
system as a whole (whichever ministry is responsible)
•Equal
educational rights for offenders
Offenders
– and ex-offenders on the road to re-integration – have every bit as much
right to benefit from the learning opportunities available in society as other
sections of the population.