California scheme to get ex-prisoners into HE ripe for imitation

Via fiscal reform, income-linked loans and four-year places, a famed higher education system can be saved, says Simon Marginson

22 September

New York proposes free college courses for inmates while Romania cracks down on its ‘publish or perish’ loophole, finds Ellie Bothwell

20 January

Prisoners rarely get tertiary lessons, let alone have undergraduates study alongside them, but the results can be profound. Helen Lock reports

15 March

The University of California System remains a model blueprint despite Berkeley’s travails, and one the UK would do well to copy, says Alan Ryan

17 March

Shaking off ‘impostor syndrome’ and stereotypes seen as essential by ex-prisoners recruited to spearhead programme