ABSTRACT
The key design features of CBMS that we outline in this book, and the learnercentred philosophy that underpins them, offer many opportunities for flexible and innovative curriculum development. CBMS offers the potential for institutions to develop a responsive, demand-led curriculum to serve both the changing needs of the mainstream HE student body and the (often) more specialized needs of business and industry. CBMS has been a major factor in the growing confidence that the sector has in ensuring the quality of an increasingly diversi-fied non-traditional ‘product range’. For some in HE even the language used here will grate, for others it is indicative of a new realism and openness. This chapter focuses on negotiated programmes and work-based learning as two major areas in which flexibility has been developed successfully.
