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With a cohort of 450 expected in 2019, it is set to get bigger still. ‘Transformational’. Frontline was developed by Josh MacAlister, its chief executive. The genesis of the idea came from his experiences of the Teach First programme, a similar fast-track route into education, and as a secondary school teacher.
- ‘More Taught Hours Than A Mainstream Course’
- Funding Attractions
- Diversity Challenge
- Expansion Slowdown
- ‘Research Mindedness’
One criticism often levelled at Frontline, compared with traditional routes into social work, is that, however intensive, a five-week crash course can’t prepare trainees for placements and practice. The approach, and training model, has been replicated on the Think Ahead programme focused on training social workers for mental health practice. Shemm...
Another bone of contention has been Frontline’s fully funded status, which also applies to the Think Ahead and Step Up to Social Work schemes, as bursaries available for undergraduate and masters courses have been frozen or cut. In year one, tuition fees and accommodation for Frontline’s five-week summer institute are paid for and students receive ...
Frontline has also been criticised in the past for drawing its students disproportionately from more privileged backgrounds. The 2016 evaluation of the scheme found that, compared with mainstream programmes, its participants were more likely to be younger, white, from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and to have attended one of the elite Russell Gr...
The government has invested in Frontline year-on-year from its first cohort of 100 in 2014, and awarded the provider a £45 million contract in Januaryto train 450 participants each in its 2020 and 2021 cohorts. More students mean more placements, and the programme has expanded its geographical reach from an initial group Greater Manchester and Lond...
Both tutors express excitement about Shemmings’ new advisory role, which they say will contribute more research-mindedness. “It’s bringing in his research perspective but also his ideas about how we share that information in the context of the participants being in the first year of practice, actual qualified practice and the demands of trying to d...
Apr 4, 2019 · Story updated 5 April 2019. For social workers on Twitter there are few subjects more divisive than Frontline, the fast-track training provider that was awarded £45m of public money in January 2019 to put 900 students through its programme from 2020 to 2022.
Jun 20, 2022 · In the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 published last October, ministers set out plans to reduce “non-frontline civil service headcount” to 2019-20 levels by 2024-25. This move, which the Institute for Government think tank has estimated would mean cutting 30,000 roles, was intended to help fund increases to frontline roles.
FRONTLINE Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court. S2019 Ep10 | 53m 53s How a partisan war for the Supreme Court culminated in Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation.
Feb 6, 2023 · The inside story of President Trump’s gamble to confront China over trade. Reporting from the U.S. and China, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate what led the world’s two largest economies to the brink, and the billions at stake. The episode was rated 7.10 from 10 votes.
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Frontline is an investigative journalism television program from PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), producing in-depth documentaries on a variety of domestic and international stories and issues, and broadcasting them on air and online.
