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Kevin Warner's professional background is in teaching. During the 1970s he taught both in schools and in adult education across Ireland and England. From 1979 to 2009 he was employed by the Department of Justice as National Co-ordinator of Education in the prison system in the Republic of Ireland. His job was to develop provision to meet the educational needs of those in prison in partnership with educational bodies from the community. As part of this larger provision Open University courses were made available in all prisons in the Republic of Ireland from 1985 and Kevin liaised with The Open University in relation to that provision until... early 2009. He chaired the Council of Europe Expert Group that produced the report Education in Prison (1990) and he was founding Chairperson of the European Prison Education Association from 1991-1996.
Kevin Warner's professional background is in teaching. During the 1970s he taught both in schools and in adult education across Ireland and England. From 1979 to 2009 he was employed by the Department of Justice as National Co-ordinator of Education in the prison system in the Republic of Ireland. His job was to develop provision to meet the educational needs of those in prison in partnership with educational bodies from the community. As part of this larger provision Open University courses were made available in all prisons in the Republic of Ireland from 1985 and Kevin liaised with The Open University in relation to that provision until... early 2009. He chaired the Council of Europe Expert Group that produced the report Education in Prison (1990) and he was founding Chairperson of the European Prison Education Association from 1991-1996.
| Title: | I think we can make that happen |
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| Description: | Kevin Warner National Co-ordinator of Education in the Prisons in the Republic of Ireland describes how he met Diana Purcell at a meeting on prison education in The Open University offices in Belfast in 1984 starting a chain of events which led to Open University study being made available in prisons in the Republic of Ireland from 1985 at the time the only place in the entire jurisdiction where it was available. | Rights statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | Contact the OU Archive prior to any re-use. Contact university-archive@open.ac.uk |
| Contributor: | Kevin Warner |
| Duration: | 00:03:47 |
| Master programe code and title: | Kevin Warner Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:17:42 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:21:29 |
| Master programme production number: | 095_O_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
