Research is mostly it, the department I went to designed the SACD system for Sony when they were not teaching.
A lot of my work involves supporting HE staff and believe me they do work hard most of the year. You will always get a few duds who try and do as little work as possible but for most of them research is what makes them tick.
I am not sure what they do in some of the HE colleges which have recently become universities but even the lower ones do a lot of research.
The teaching staff also have to design the courses, unlike a college when they just teach an existing course at university everything is designed from scratch.
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