The evolving relationship between businesses and universities is underpinned by our core themes of Collaboration and Research, Employability and Skills, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise, and Social Wellbeing and run concurrently throughout our work, alongside a set of more generic themes on internationalising higher education, business demand for STEM skills, career information, advice and guidance (IAG) and the future funding of the sector.

In addition to our core themes, we work within the following policy areas to help influence the future direction of thinking in government, universities and business.