Social Justice and Equal Opportunities for Prison Population Access to University: Empirical Study at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

• In Event: International Perspectives in Assessment

Abstract

National Distance University (UNED) —being the largest universitary institution in Spain— is the only university that offers Higher Education in penitentiary centers. This state university has been offering Study Programmes for Penitentiaries for more than 40 years with the goal of increasing training and cultural level of prison population through distance education methodology, and penitentiary students constitute 0.6% of UNED students. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to analyze the academic profile of students enrolled at Higher Education in prisons in Spain (in open or internal regime) through the study of their evaluation and academic success rates. Results show differences in these rates in relation to some students´ variables such as age, degree, and access modality.

Authors

• Andrea Otero-Mayer, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

• Ana González-Benito, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

• Belén Gutiérrez-de-Rozas, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

• Enrique Moreno González, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia