National Union of Students
The pedagogy of partnership has more recently found favour with the National Union of Students as a critical response to the marketization of Higher Education. Their Manifesto for Partnership rejects both the market and apprenticeship models of Higher Education in favour of a model of partnership where students are neither customers of Higher Education nor passive recipients of it.
Instead, they are active partners in the life and learning of the University and, as such, partnership is the goal of student engagement.
Even the Quality Assurance Agency have embraced the concept of partnership in their element of the Quality Code on student engagement stating: ‘Partnership working is based on the values of: openness; trust and honesty; agreed shared goals and values; and regular communication between the partners.’