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Letting students co-design their own curriculum is pedagogically sound and delivers real satisfaction, say advocates
There aren't many industries as competitive as the restaurant business. To thrive in this cut-throat world, you need to be exceptionally good, or you need a cunning ruse.
One such ploy, which has been trialled by a number of restaurateurs, is to ditch prices on menus and instead ask customers to pay whatever they think their meal was worth.
The result? In many cases, it seems, a warm fuzzy feeling of trust and mutual respect, and a payment that's at least as big as the restaurant could have got away with charging.
It would be a brave university that tried this particular ruse with its students and tuition fees.
But there is an increasingly widespread approach to another part of the university-student contract - teaching and...