We announced the review of the Higher Education Business and Community Interactions (HE-BCI) survey in early 2019, but we had to pause initial work looking at user needs and priorities during the pandemic. Since then, we have made good progress in the review, working with the Higher Education Funding Bodies and the Office for Students.
Through a combination of user engagement and policy analysis we established priority areas. We also established a project board for statutory users of the dataset to advise us on their emerging needs. We want to improve trust in and quality of data in the following areas:
- Geographic granularity
- Commercialisation
- Social and cultural interactions
- Equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI)
- In-kind contributions to collaborative research and partnerships
- Staff and students as agents of knowledge exchange (KE).
