It is not regressive for universities to aggregate and create content

“If you dropped a surgeon from the 16th century into a modern-day operating theatre, they would be astounded at how medicine had advanced,” a former vice-chancellor explained to me recently. “If you dropped a 16th-century academic into a modern-day university, they would wonder why so little had changed.” This is rubbish, and it's dangerous rubbish. It's like the stuff certain people said back in the 90's about how the EU is obsessed with bendy bananas. If we let the charge stick, we will not like the outcome.