JISC Legal : Business and Community Engagement

This document will assist those dealing with State Aid issues in the context of BCE activities.

This guidance will assist the UK funding bodies when dealing with State Aid issues in the context of BCE.

This guidance document is intended to provide relevant personnel within further and higher education institutions with an introduction to State Aid law and clarify some of the issues which such institutions may face when collaborating with, or providing services to, the private sector.

Report on the use of Publicly-funded Infrastructure, Services and Intellectual Property.

This publication is aimed at UK further and higher education staff working in areas related to knowledge transfer, work based learning, community links, outreach, CPD, employer engagement, wider participation, and lifelong learning.

This case study considers some of the copyright issues which can arise when a college or university uses the software which it holds under licence to provide a commercial training course.

One of the benefits of being a college or university is that you can generally obtain software at reduced rates on an academic licence. This however may have implications when carrying out your Business and Community Engagement ("BCE") activities.

If a college or university delivers any Business and Community Engagement activities online, the institution must make sure that its website and processes comply with the e-commerce rules. This guide gives an overview of these rules.

This case study considers some of the copyright issues which can arise when a college or university is engaged to design software or a website for a company.

This publication is aimed at UK further and higher education staff working in areas related to knowledge transfer, work based learning, community links, outreach, CPD, employer engagement, wider participation, and lifelong learning.

This briefing gives an overview of some of the legal issues which may arise in relation to the use of technology by UK further and higher education establishments in their Business and Community Engagement ("BCE") activities.

BCE activities will often involve the collection and use of personal data. Accordingly, institutions must ensure that their policies, practices and procedures cover any processing which they undertake in the course of these activities.

Staff in UK further and higher education establishments may be involved in the exploitation of their intellectual property creations with outside bodies. This guide is intended to assist staff in understanding the different approaches and their consequences which they may encounter.

This paper is intended to assist staff in UK further and higher education establishments who are involved in the use and creation of intellectual property as part of Business and Community Engagement (BCE) activities.

Over the last few years, however, there has been a shift towards supplementing these activities by providing services to the business and social communities.  This service provision is known as BCE. 

This paper discusses recent developments in the UK legislative framework applicable to e-commerce practices and related technologies.

ARCHIVED This paper brings together risks associated with the laws of contract and torts, employment law, privacy and data protection.