The phrase "academic element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a component or aspect related to academic study or education.
Example: "The curriculum includes several academic elements that are essential for student success."
Alternatives: "scholarly component" or "educational aspect".
Maryland officials also touted an academic element to the shift.
In Europe and Africa, where she first became involved with Model U.N., she said the focus is more on the academic element of debating.
Rather like the way banks are being encouraged to separate their retail and investment banking businesses, I would argue that universities should make a clear distinction between the research and academic element of their existence and the vocational.
In the United States and elsewhere the academic element is broader, and the first two years of college or university work may embody a wide range of elective subjects from diverse disciplinary fields.
They don't escape without an academic element though, because they must write a commentary on their project.
Prof Smithers says such links with a popular TV show might work as a way of attracting students, but the academic element needs to outweigh the entertainment.
The battalion's fighters train in an old mill in a programme that includes military, fitness and academic elements.
He created a tradition of integrating the clinical and academic elements of foot and ankle disorders that inspired countless colleagues, residents and fellows.
We are pulling the oral tradition out of the music and making it about the technical and academic elements.
However, redesigning the academic elements was not enough.
"Even after I had castigated his innovations and he had replied by saying I had been of value to him only as someone to react against, he kept in personal touch with me …." Benton's style, a blend of modern and academic elements, came to be known as regionalism.
