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Discover LudwigThe phrase "academic at all" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to question the scholarly nature or seriousness of a subject or statement.
Example: "I don't think that article is academic at all; it lacks proper citations and research."
Alternatives: "scholarly in any way" or "educational in the least".
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You can see now why academics worry so much about this issue: The question is not academic at all!
The freedom claimed is no longer academic at all.
And this is to say nothing of the criticism that their actual subjects of study -- a scene in a movie, a Beyoncé video, a photograph -- do not really constitute evidence -- but instead privilege a form of academic inquiry that's facile and not really academic at all.
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My advisor suggested I finish with a master's". Other women, like my student, decide not to pursue an academic career at all.
It recommends pay increases of up to 20% linked to merit and performance.But why pay more for academics at all?
We encourage submissions from cultural observers, at home and abroad, and academics at all stages of their careers.
That is why our universities need confidence that the visa regime will make it easy for academics at all levels – including postgraduate students – to move here easily.
Business academics at all career stages (not only the likes of ourselves, who are established professors) should be encouraged to get out there and talk to businesspeople about research and they should try to collaborate on research where ideas are inspired by (if not directly coming from) issues that practitioners have raised.
If we do so, and extend academic freedom only to those "found worthy" by a political measure, we shall have lost our grip on academic freedom altogether, for "[p]olitically qualified academic freedom is not really academic freedom at all".
Marty Whitman: Yeah, well, look, you read the literature, starting with Graham and Dodd, and looking at all these academic tests, looking at generally accepted accounting principles.
We both joked about the kind of book we want to write when we do get tenure – maybe not an academic book at all, maybe a travel book or a novel – anything to feel free of the academic regulations that have been imposed on us for so long.
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