Organisations and institutions
Motherwell College
Motherwell College provides an offender learning and skills service in 7 of 14 public sector prisons. The College has been involved in the delivery of learning services to prisons since 1985 and has experience of delivering to all categories of prisoner including, remand, short-term, longterm, young people, males and females. Our Offender Learning and Skills Service employs almost 80 professional teaching staff, many of whom have in excess of 10 years experience of working in prisons.
Category: Academic Institutionhttp://www.motherwell.co.uk/about-us/offender-learning-introduction
Evaluations as member organisation (1)
Inspiring Change: Final Project Report of the Evaluation Team
An evaluation of a series of arts-based interventions across the Scottish criminal justice system, focusing on the impact of engagement in these programmes on offenders’ attitudes and behaviours as well as their ability to learn.The findings concentrate on examining the quality of the arts experience, the people and processes involved, ... read on →
Publications
KIrstin Anderson, Fergus McNeill, Katie Overy, Richard Sparks and Lynn Tett, ‘Learning, Rehabilitation and the Arts in Prison : A Scottish Case Study’, in: Studies in the Education of Adults (2012), Volume 44, Issue 2, pp.171–184 Links: University of Edinburgh website
