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User Voice has established councils in more than 25 prisons to try to create space for solution-focused dialogue between residents and staff

Teaching prisoners creative sewing boosts their employability and self-confidence, say those at Fine Cell Work

Since most of us learn to read and write in the first year or two of school, it feels almost impossible to imagine not being able to. But Angela Cairns, CEO of prisoners reading charity Shannon [...]

Erwin James, a double murderer, served 20 years in prison - a spell that he decided he must make meaningful. Now working as a professional journalist, he urges other inmates to try to transform [...]

What if prisons were designed to educate and encourage, rather than simply to punish? In the face of huge challenges, we meet those who are helping inmates find compassion, courage and purpose

Jeanette Haigh uses Positive News as a reading aid in adult literacy classes. The uplifting design and content make it a perfect match, she says

More than half the MPs in the new House of Commons are state educated, research shows

We spend a day with Neil Monaghan, who heads up operations at the Archway Project in Thamesmead, London. It teaches disadvantaged and disabled young people how to fix motorbikes – and alters [...]

Staff at a US high school created an environment built on empathy and redemption. Using a framework called trauma-informed care, they acknowledged childhood trauma when addressing behavioural [...]

Mary Colwell is the driving force behind a petition to urge the government to develop a GCSE in natural history. She explains why she believes the qualification could address conservation apathy

From picking apart pop songs to acting out the experience of a girl walking the streets, a creative education programme in India is challenging ingrained gender stereotypes. Could starting young [...]

The Hole in the Wall experiment, carried out in the slums of India by education professor Sugata Mitra in 1999, suggested that children, without direction, will seek out new knowledge. More than [...]

We met students from around the world who attend ‘positive education’ institutions. Their thoughts capture how the model could rewrite the rules around learning

Social entrepreneur Jerry Lockspeiser describes how his new book helps take the confusion out of wine, while helping create lasting change in Sierra Leone

Ostracised throughout Europe for centuries, Roma immigrants are finding Glasgow more welcoming. Education and trust-building are at the heart of the city’s attempts at cultural integration

Hundreds of children in Benin have been freed in a significant victory against the damaging voodoo ‘convents’ in the country.

South African schoolgirls are helping to create Africa’s first privately-funded satellite in an effort to reset the gender balance in maths and technology

In multicultural areas of the Belgian capital, an education project is drawing on family history to foster understanding and integration. Veronique Mistiaen investigates

More than 3,000 young mothers and pregnant girls have registered for UNICEF's back-to-school programme

As conflict rages in the Middle East, children are being taken out of school and put to work, but a number of initiatives are now working to reverse the trend