The phrase "academic currency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the value or worth of knowledge, skills, or credentials in an academic context.
Example: "In today's competitive job market, having a diverse skill set is essential, as it serves as academic currency that can enhance your employability."
Alternatives: "intellectual capital" or "scholarly value".
Cambridge sets extra maths and science tests for applicants to those courses.These are, in effect, multiple academic currencies.
Dissing the dollar doomed the Bush Administration, cost the U.S. millions of jobs and trillions in capital outflows and pleased only academics and currency traders.
Few single countries would meet the academic criteria for optimal currency areas.
They should stop charging students to work without pay — and ensure that the currency of academic credit, already cheapened by internships, doesn't lose all its value.
Survival at All Costs At Stuyvesant, the alma mater of four Nobel laureates, students say the social currency is academic achievement.
It simply resulted in academic inflation – a new currency came into being and the market readjusted itself to its old ways.
And being beaten to publication is a huge loss for a scientist, as publications are the currency of academic science--they are an important factor in competing for government and private grant funds and in obtaining tenure and respect in a discipline.
Although published manuscripts remain the currency for academic productivity, promotion to full professor should not only be based on publications and a PhD, but also on high-quality, documented, mentoring of students.
But such discussions of "optimal currency areas" are academic.
"Even if bitcoins become worth nothing, it has succeeded more than any academic proposals for a digital currency," he said in an interview from Okinawa, Japan, where he was attending a conference on financial cryptography that included a number of papers on bitcoins.
