Thus, rather than an intercalated degree encouraging entry into academic medicine [ 4- 6], it may be that those students who are more academic are attracted to intercalating as the first step of an academic career [ 8].
More and more, academics are being pressured into researching, to the detriment of teaching.
Today, more and more academics are creating content and posting it online.
Closely observed episodes like this are little treasures, and make you wish more academics were willing to dip into their personal experience.
But more and more academics are viewing traditional publishers as obstacles to wide dissemination of studies paid for by public monies.
Hard numbers are difficult to find, but anecdotal evidence suggests that many more academics are leaving Germany than are arriving, in contrast with countries such as the United States and Sweden that have a net "brain-gain".
Because of tight budgets, it has become harder to work within traditional grant mechanisms, meaning that more academics are starting to look outside of their comfort zones and partner with businesses.
It's shaping up as another long, hard fight: Science lobbyists are playing catch-up but have time on their side, while small business leaders say they don't understand why more academics aren't in their corner.
Alexei Ratmansky, interview with Nora Fitzgerald, Washington Post, 2007 "The St Petersburg style is cooler, it's more academic, it's classicism in its highest level.
Though changes were made to make this even more academic, it was still met with the hostility of Notre Dame which is specific to queer and transgender students.
