James Lester
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I've worked on admissions/strategy/evaluation for ARBOx2 and ARBOx3, and I'd broadly endorse JamesH's comments—I'd be very excited to see the programme you describe, but as a next step/complement to ARENA-type programmes rather than a substitute.
A few thoughts on the signalling/upskilling conversation:
Based on surveys and private anecdata, it seems like a large part of ARBOx's value comes from building confidence, motivation, and a sense of direction for participants. I think it's hard to replicate this benefit through self-studying the ARENA curriculum, and I'd say it's a significant component of ARBOx's past/ongoing impact. This could explain ARBOx's strong placement record despite a compressed runtime (since these benefits probably scale sub-linearly with more weeks).
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On 3., I think the four ARBOx fellows cited above did ARBOx first, then went on to AFP etc. I understand the argument to be "despite ARBOx being only two weeks, it has a good placement record, so why is ARENA 2.5x longer?"