Sentence examples for quit academic from inspiring English sources

He quit academic and NHS posts in the late 1990s to become a private pathologist on the Home Office register.

The Feminist Wire's Tamura Lomax penned "Black Women's Lives Don't Matter in Academia Either, or Why I Quit Academic Spaces that Don't Value Black Women's Life and Labor," earlier this year echoing the sentiments of many of us.

The success of that record and other early recordings let him quit his academic career — he had been teaching French at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — for the life of a full-time pianist.

In 2000, I quit an academic postdoc job and became an English teacher.

A wealthy American investor approached him several years ago and asked Poinar to quit his academic job and work full time on bringing back woolly mammoths.

Religion in the academic setting never quite quit its long history of advocacy outside the university, and so academic religion embraced its mission as sponsorship of religion, offering 'religion appreciation' classes similar to art appreciation classes.

The external examiners who have resigned (Academics quit exam roles over 1.1% pay offer, 27 May; Letters, 27 May) say they have done so to support the campaign against low pay, casualisation, gender inequality and the discrepancy between the sizes of pay increases for lecturers and those for vice-chancellors.

Government advisory positions are considered prestigious, and it is highly unusual for an academic to quit one in protest.

Germaine Greer, below, the feminist and academic, has quit the British "Celebrity Big Brother" television show prematurely, citing her fear that it was promoting a bullying culture.

He quit Stanford for one academic quarter and regrouped on long forest runs with his father, drawing strength from his Christian faith and family.

He played football and lacrosse at Ohio State University, had zero interest in academics and quit after three semesters.