Already, academics had coined a new term, "Kurdification," to describe the Kurds' effort to claim their place in the region's culture.
Already academics asked to host a distinguished professor of political Islam first consult the police, and are told that this everyday university event requires a strong police presence.
Already, academics, IT experts and, most importantly, the pupils, had built up a consensus that the ICT GCSE was no good.
I was fortunate that I was already an academic and already fairly bookish and academically inclined.
These are flippant distortions of already despised academic arguments.
But it would have had a negative effect on already limited academic freedom in China.
The attacks on schools have been part of Boko Haram's strategy, further devastating an already compromised academic system.
There is already considerable academic research to indicate that higher intelligence is associated with socially liberal attitudes.
There was already substantial academic and commercial work being done on synthesizers in places like Stanford University's computer department, the BBC Radiophonics Workshop, and the West German Broadcasting studio, in Cologne.
Although many teachers are already pursuing academic credits for master's or other advanced degrees, soon they will have to do it to keep their licenses.
