The shock of the new: Students' perceptions of a collaborative degree

This paper examines the responses of part-time students to a collaborative management degree. The case study programme is set within the national cont ext in terms of innovative developments in management education. It is iden tified as possessing the typical attributes of such programmes: flexibility , modularity, employer specificity and high employer input in teaching and assessment. While there has been much argument about the desirability of su ch developments, there has been little work into the perceptions of student s undertaking such programmes. The case study takes a longitudinal view, ex amining student reactions by means of a survey and a series of in-depth int erviews.