Manchester undergraduate programme is one of the largest and most successful providers of dental education in the UK, with world-leading researchers in basic dental sciences and health services research. The programme is designed for Enquiry based learning not teaching. The aim is to allow students to discover and learn for themselves not to subject them to formal tuition under a different name. That is not to say that tutors are redundant as their contribution is as important as ever, but it changes from being “teacher” to being active “facilitator of learning”.