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C9-Wednesday, August 20, 1980 - North Shore News

OLI education programs move into prisons

Students need supportive environment

Twenty of the Open
Learning Institute’s most
closely supervised students
have just completed their
first semester of studies. The
students are inmates of the
federal penitentiaries at
Kent, Mountain, Mission,
Matsqui and William Head.
They are enrolled, prepaid,
through an arrangement
between OLI and the Pacific
Region of the Correctional
Service of Canada.

“We see OLI courses as a
valuable complement to our
ongoing educational
program,” said Ted Swain,
William Head’s Assistant
Warden of Education and
Training. “Our students
need the supportive learning
environment which can be

provided only ina classroom -

or school setting. But in-
dividual self study programs
of the OLI type are useful for

student-inmates who have ~

developed good motivation
and study habits. Also they
allow us to extend the range
of courses available.”

The Correctional Service
has a growing and ambitious
educational program ranging
from basic literacy in-
struction through several
levels to senior university
courses; supplemented by
some forms of vocational
training. The university
portion of the program,
which has been offered by
the University of Victoria

since 1973, stresses the
development of analytical
thinking and moral

reasoning powers through
the study of a liberal arts
program. Remedial grade

school and secondary school --

programs are offered
through contracts with local
school districts.

“Our education program is
designed to be a vehicle for
the teaching of moral values,
and the enhancement of
moral awareness,” says Dr.
Tony Parlett, Regional
Administration, Education
and Training. “The principle
objective of our education
program is to enhance the
inmate’slevel of moral

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awareness.”

Recent studies appear to
confirm the premises of the
educational program and the
changes which occur in the

thinking of student inmates. .

Reconviction rates for such
students have been around
10%, as against the norm of
40%.

OLI courses in high

school, vocational and
university programs add
flexibility by allowing
correctional centres to offer

low demand courses or those
not being offered by
traditional methods.

“We are pleased to be
associated with this
program,” said Dr. Denys
Meakin, OLI’s Director of

Student Support. “We try to
treat these students exactly
like the others but some of
our procedures don’t fit too
well to the requirements of a
prison setting. We're set up
for students who have
freedom of movement to
purchase small items of
materials, who have free
access to a telephone, who

can receive parcels in the
mail, and who can report to
a nearby exam centre. None
of these has been a major
problem, but some of our
tutors have to make special
telephone arrangements,
and, of course, we have to

ensure that our parcels will
pass prison security
clearance.”

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“Maybe we should also
change our questionnaire
asking about outside in-
terests,” added Meakin.

Persons wishing more
information about the in-
‘stitute can write the Open
Learning Institute, Box
94,000, Richmond, B.C.
V6Y 2A2 or call collect at
270-8021.

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