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An important question in the study of academic work is how much time academics spend on teaching. Large-scale workload-measurements point to the fact that in nearly all cases academics spend more hours per week on teaching than they ought to. Yet in qualitative interviews academics struggle to estimate weekly work time counts considerably. In this article we investigate the way teaching time is constructed in German universities. We argue that weekly clock-time measurements do not provide an adequate picture of teaching time compared to how it is structured and experienced by academics. Teaching time rather evolves from the time classification of the weekly contact hour (SWS) and produces different time frames depending on how courses are allocated, coordinated, conceptualized, prepared, conducted and how students are supervised or examined. By following the trajectory of the SWS through the activities of teaching we propose to concentrate less on how much time academics work but rather why time de- and inflates and how this affects teaching experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses that the flagship journal "K-theory" has been split up into a strange dispute after mathematician Anthony Bak withheld all the received papers for its publication in Germany. It states that Bak left the journal because of production problems and high subscription rate. Then, he arranged to introduce a rival title with other publisher that offer lower subscription rate. The journal publisher fired Bak because of this illegal act. Meanwhile, information on the reactions of the editors on this initiative is offered.