The latest data sets on universities’ commercial activities are encouraging but show that there is more to do in some areas.
Playbook has never made any secret of its fondness for the Higher Education Business and Community Interaction survey.
Sure, it is not as glamorously named as the excellence frameworks, and it doesn’t carry the grandeur or political power of the Student Experience Survey. But it is a solid and respectable exercise in information gathering, and one that vice-chancellors (and their strategy heads) will have been studying over the weekend.