The phrase "academy days" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the time spent in an educational institution, typically during one's schooling or training period.
Example: "Looking back on my academy days, I realize how much those experiences shaped my future."
Alternatives: "school days" or "educational years".
Quite often, we would hold our academy days up north, and Leeds was the obvious place for a base, not least because it was a dual-code operation involving talented youngsters from both league and union.
Like many other shows, "The Beat" has a Web site (www.thebeattv.com), a creatively ambitious one that presents a prequel to the series, showing Mike and Zane during their academy days.
Craddock added: "I've scored four before in my academy days but not as a professional so I'm really pleased".
"He's brought me on hugely and I've worked with him since I was a kid growing up in the academy days".
John McCain also has a lifetime of flaunting rules from military academy days to his marital infidelity and to the Keating scandal which almost ended his career.
Harris made several important changes to the school, reorganizing it into a true university, whereas before, its organization had remnants of the Academy days.
"I learned as much as a lot of the racers had in their ski-academy days," she said.
I am one of those guys who wouldn't be allowed in the academy these days".
His book, as he puts it in a wry aside, has no theory, even if in the academy these days, having no theory is seen as a theory in itself.
In the run-up to the election, the Conservatives were loudly proclaiming that they would give primary schools the chance to turn into academies and that any school deemed "outstanding" by Ofsted, the school inspectorate, would be able to transform into an academy within days of a Tory government.
But while there may be more room in the academy, these days, for critics of what he would see as a leftwing status quo, Scruton doesn't think the situation in politics is markedly different, because, Philip Blond et al notwithstanding, there is "no career comparable to that of, say, Tony Giddens on the left, with open access to both academic and political influence and office".
