The phrase "academic hurdles" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to challenges or obstacles encountered in an academic setting, such as studying, exams, or coursework.
Example: "Many students face various academic hurdles during their college years, which can impact their overall performance."
Alternatives: "educational challenges" or "scholarly obstacles".
Q: What are the commercial and academic hurdles to developing a better vaccine?
In regions where academic hurdles are increasing — including new primary school entrance exams for children as young as 4 in some countries — seeking outside tutoring may seem necessary to parents.
However, we underestimated the social, emotional, and academic hurdles we would face.
Hill referred to intervention specialists, and others as crucial figures who could step in when students meet academic hurdles.
It would certainly be interesting to explore the range of ways in which pharmacy students aspire to both service and success; how, throughout their training, they motivate themselves to pass academic hurdles, develop 'passions' through internships, sign up for medical outreach in student-organized 'civic holidays', or admire the car of a fellow student who works part-time as an industry 'rep'.
But other students who were admitted later also failed the test, and as classes started last week, CUNY officials estimated that more than 300 students had still failed to clear the academic hurdle.
Considering the academic and social hurdles, Dr. Thomas says, making it to college despite the disorder is, in itself, an achievement.
Multiple academic and qualification hurdles have to be surmounted and there is a highly structured promotion system.
One of the major hurdles of academic tenure-track positions in the United States and Canada, and the cause of many sleepless nights, is obtaining tenure.
After graduation, Cherkasova and Kornilov went their separate ways, keeping in touch via letters and weekly phone calls, sharing the details of every aspect of their lives – their kids' first days of school, their academic research, their relationship hurdles.
It's not that these students don't have the heart or don't want to work for their education; the real problem is the layers of hurdles -- academic, social and financial challenges -- that students have to overcome just to get their foot in the institution's door, and then to stay there.
