Abstract
Relationships matter in educational settings, particularly between students and the teacher and has a long and rich scholarly foundation.
Over the years numerous scholars have challenged the traditional marketisation of higher education as a commodity where the ‘student as consumer’ adopted the role of a passive recipient (Matthews, 2016; McCulloch, 2009; Bryson, 2014a; Bryson, 2014b; Levy, et al., 2011). McCulloch (2009) proposed the ‘student as partners’ attitude where students as co-producers adopt a more collaborative active role