FE WEEK: Behind bars, thinking of Mars: Life in space project opens up to prisoners

In a futuristic collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and digital learning company Coracle, inmates are being encouraged to design spaceships and moon bases and to consider life in outer space.

The Life Beyond project is now available in England, Wales and Northern Ireland through Coracle Inside, a digital education service which provides laptops for use in prison cells.

What started out as a lecture given by Professor Charles Cockell about life in space given to inmates at the Scottish prisons HMP Shotts, Edinburgh, Glenochil and Lowmoss has now grown into a fully interactive course involving art work, philosophical ideas and other creative projects, such as making a lunar cookbook

Read the feature on FE news here.