Just as the community of wonks was reading the Productivity Commission’s not-especially impressed commentary on universities teaching performance on Tuesday morning PC chair Peter Harris was recording an interview with University of Melbourne VC Glyn Davis for his uni’s Policy Shop podcast.

And a very informed discussion it is too, although a frank exchange on university performance between the pair is sadly absent. Maybe they agreed to differ, or maybe Professor Davis had not got to the bit where the PC buckets universities for ordinary teaching performance when they spoke.