Design your own course? A new role for students in programme development and curriculum design

This case study describes an initiative undertaken at Manchester Metropolitan University as part of the HEA's Students as Partners Change Programme.

The initiative sought to develop the concept of partnership in curriculum development. It was hoped that this would encourage students to become more engaged with the ways in which they were taught and to give them useful transferable skills in communication negotiation and problem-solving as well as enhancing the courses for future students.