Those with strong enough protection can escape punishment what Mr He, the academic, refers to as a "backroom amnesty .Mr He acknowledges that persuading officials to come clean will be hard.
"The Palestinian Authority was only supposed to last five years," says Karma Nabulsi, a UK-based Palestinian academic, referring to the 1995 Israeli-Palestinian interim agreement intended to pave the way for statehood.The frustration is compounded by the fact that the Palestinian negotiators have so little to show for their efforts.
Academics refer to us as "situational name users".
The idea derives from the false notion that the total number of jobs is fixed, what academics refer to as the "lump of labour fallacy".
In the real world, when people form an opinion, they tend to seek out evidence that supports it and discard anything that contradicts it, a phenomenon academics refer to as confirmation bias.
Dr Dan Mercea, lecturer in the department of sociology at City University, says that for several years there has been a move away from party politics towards the protest activities that academics refer to as "contentious politics", a broad category extending from strikes and demonstrations to violence and riots.
Academics refer to this practice as survivor bias.
Some of this may be chalked up to what academics refer to as "incumbents' inertia" in the face of technological change.
The CREDO study also ignored the positive impact on charter school standardized test scores resulting from the different demographic makeup of student populations in charter and traditional public schools -- what academics refer to as the "peer effect".
Although academics refer to the 63 numbered "clauses" of Magna Carta, this is a modern system of numbering, introduced by Sir William Blackstone in 1759; the original charter formed a single, long unbroken text.
