"alongside academic" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to activities or pursuits that are on equal footing with formal education. For example, "Frankie has been excelling in his academics, but he also pursues music alongside academic pursuits."
Alongside academic records and references, personal statements are crucial in determining who gets a place.
Meanwhile, Gove's relentless exam-factory model of schooling has seen the real purpose of education – the development of character and resilience, alongside academic and vocational rigour – brutally downgraded.
If a PhD student can write papers, present their data and work alongside academic staff, it is time to acknowledge their work as work.
At every stage of training, no matter at what point you join, you'll receive practical workplace experience from the start, alongside academic learning.
The 80 boys who attend the academy take part in sessions after school and at the weekends, undergoing military drills and physical activity alongside academic work.
As England fixates on what can be measured and examined, talks down its teachers, and even more bizarrely argues about whether they should be qualified at all, our competitors around the world are investing relentlessly in their teaching workforce and exploring new ways of valuing personal, social and emotional development alongside academic work.
Learning technologists worked alongside academics to help them express their curricula in Moodle, and the same learning platform was used to deliver personalised course information to students.
The unfairness of working on these terms alongside academics on permanent contracts doing less teaching for far more money is what upsets him most.
Performers and producers write alongside academics, proposing a shared analysis not just of what it means to look at pictures of adult sexual activity, but also of what it means to make them.
If Adler had an innovative approach to education in the late 19th century — he believed that diversity enhanced education, that ethics should be taught alongside academics and that children learned by doing, not listening — then Dr. Fernandez may be a logical successor.
That method was developed alongside academics worldwide (including William O'Grady, the author of "How Children Learn Language"), and can be used to teach French, Spanish, Italian, and Mandarin in addition to its English language bent.
