The reports, Learning and skills for offenders serving short custodial sentences and Learning and skills for the longer serving offender, found that a lack of consistent education provision is limiting the amount that prisoners' can learn in custody.
The watchdog found that the "slow and inefficient" transfer of records between different prisons and probation services hampered prisoners' learning.
Short-term offenders had access to a better range of courses than long-term offenders, but a fifth of prisons still failed to offer learning programmes suited to offenders serving sentences of less than one year.
Ofsted is recommending that the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) develop a national strategy for learning and skills provision in prisons.
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