As Einstein was supposed to have said, (although probably never did), “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
I’ve been working in prison education for thirty years, and regardless of the author, the sentiment rings very true.
The new report into the sector from the House of Commons Education Select Committee has much to recommend it. Anyone involved in prison education will recognise a great deal of the content, and the commitment of the chair, Robert Halfon MP, both to reform and to the cause of Further Education in general, is always hugely encouraging. However, and this is where Einstein comes in, much of the good stuff in the report echoes precisely what was said in the last report on the subject, carried out by Dame Sally Coates and published a full six years ago today.
