The phrase "academic contests" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to competitions or events that involve academic skills, such as quizzes, debates, or science fairs.
Example: "Students from various schools participated in the academic contests held at the university last weekend."
Alternatives: "scholarly competitions" or "educational contests".
It's not an academic contest".
And scholars from Whitney Young went on to win second in the national academic contest.
Five years after shaming their school by cheating to win a statewide academic contest, some of the former Steinmetz High School students on the quiz team now say they have a single regret: being caught.
To David Wilson, president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, the academic contest is one way to demonstrate the benefits of a historically black college education and the support such schools are due.
No longer will scholars who never make it on to the screen have the satisfaction of knowing that at least they stand a chance of doing better in that ultimate academic beauty contest, the research assessment exercise (RAE).
Such students — more than a quarter of the 580 at the school as of last week — are excluded from all aspects of extracurricular life, including athletic contests, academic clubs, dances and plays, unless they demonstrate improvement on weekly progress reports filled out by their teachers.
While those who detest creative writing as an academic discipline may contest this, claiming that only in bohemian avant-garde literary communities are critical and creative energies intertwined, the answer to this charge is simple enough: what in the world is the "workshop" model of poetry-writing and poetry study if not a pedagogical juxtaposition of critical and creative energies?
Students are poisoned by cutthroat contests for academic success.
Life at New Humanitarian was full of academic Olympiads, poetry-reciting contests and quiz bowls.
