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I have been a Fellow of Wolfson for nearly three-quarters of the life of its oldest current buildings. I defy any fellow from one of the traditional colleges in Oxford to claim the same honour. I ask you to join me in making a toast, to the memory of Iffley and to the future of Wolfson. 120
Education and Offenders by James Crabbe (SF), JP I would argue that the shortage in skills in the United Kingdom is as wide as it was in the 1960s. Addressing this requires novel approaches to learning and skills, not least for those people in prison, and for those young people brought before the Youth Courts. I believe that there is an opportunity emerging for new groups of actors to play a significant role in improving outcomes; these include magistrates and the University and Further Education (FE) sectors. The ‘classic’ view of education, at least in the UK, is of a unilinear mode of progression, from nursery / kindergarten to prep / primary school, to secondary, to university / conservatoire / art school, to post graduate-research or the professions. Further Education (skills and vocational training) features as a ‘second class’ alternative to University and its potential is neglected, particularly when it comes to those whose early experiences of learning have been disrupted, distant or difficult. The Coates Review on Education in Prison, published in May 2016, highlighted the poor quality of much existing provision and advocated ‘high-quality vocational training and employability skills that prepare individuals for jobs on release’ (e.g. through industrial work and training designed with and for employers). In my view, this should open the door to many further education colleges and universities working with those in prison, on release and serving sentences in the community, at the local level. The review proposed that, from August <strong>2017</strong>, all governors be given the freedom to choose which education providers they want to work with; the recent replacement of the National Offender Management Service by Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service, and within this the new Youth Custody Service, may give exciting scope for new provision. In addition to providing a potential new market for college and university recruitment and partnership working in a financially beleaguered sector, tertiary education institutions could deliver innovative programmes to recruit and support students who have been involved in the criminal justice system, to turn their lives around. This has the potential to open up new ways of improving employability in local communities, and help to decrease skills gaps and shortages so important in our economy. There are already excellent examples of both universities and FE colleges who have provided programmes – including doctoral programmes – for offenders and ex-offenders. 121
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WOLFSON COLLEGE RECORD 2017
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Wolfson College at 1 October 2017 A
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Jarvis, R Paul (BSc Durham, PhD Nor
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Honorary Fellows Adams, John W (BA
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Isaacson, Daniel Rufus (AB Harvard)
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Bhaskaran, Harish (BE Pune, MS, PhD
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