The phrase "actual academic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who is genuinely involved in academic work or to distinguish between formal academic credentials and other forms of knowledge or expertise.
Example: "While many people claim to be knowledgeable, only those with an actual academic background can truly understand the complexities of the subject."
Alternatives: "genuine academic" or "true academic".
Gorka insists on being called Dr. Gorka, even though his PhD is deeply suspect – awarded by the Corvinus University of Budapest, where he shows no signs of ever having actually studied, and examined by a panel that included only one actual academic, who was also a far-right Hungarian MEP with whom Gorka had previously published a book.
"For the first time, actual academic life will be visible from the street," said Mark Wigley, dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Ilan and Jacob were both at least twenty years older than me, and they called themselves philosophers, although only Jacob seemed to have an actual academic position, and maybe a tenuous one, I couldn't quite tell.
"Besides all the other measures, like the additional laboratory equipment, student work places, new books and more, the student fee contributions have been especially indispensable because they have noticeably ameliorated actual academic supervision," said Mechtild von Münchhausen, a university spokeswoman.
Important dependent variables, including memory retention, knowledge increments, and actual academic performance, can then be assessed, thereby strengthening this research.
myPersonality was created by researchers at the Cambridge Psychometrics Centre (no relation to Cambridge Analytica — this is an actual academic institution) to source data from Facebook users via personality quizzes.
(A portion of the 2 million users are probably enthusiasts, not actual academics, however).
He doesn't know how or why the fake papers were created and submitted, or if the alleged "authors" (many of whom are actual academics) were even aware that their names were used.
But this banning of an app inactive for years and used successfully by real academics for actual research purposes has an air of theatricality.
Solve the problem of low university representation and ineligible athletes by solving the actual problem: academic performance.
Such wasteful spending on non-essential staff is out of proportion to the actual goals of academic institutions, which are charged to teach and research, not administer.
