It's an academic argument as everyone knows the Welsh Government says publicly it wants the powers and the UK Government says it won't hand over them.
For best-selling British crime writer Peter James, it's not an academic question.
It brings the country's academic curriculum to life with pictures, video and interactive quizzes.
It's that kind of academic inspiration that a young Gary Grice could have used growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s.
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" Larry cites CEO Eric Schmidt's academic background and the academic orgins of the Internet (by which he means it's an open collaboration, not a vendor relationship.) The cool thing about the Web when it launched, he says, was that there was no real barrier to putting things online, "so people put up all sorts of crap.
The professor's scheme may sound academic, but it offers a far more nuanced guide to America's religious divisions than the insults politicians trade in the election season.
It's a weighty piece of work, more academic tome than pamphlet as they put it in the Wales Office - an exercise in governance that hasn't been undertaken in many years and a valuable, proper contribution to the process of considering where the devolution journey has got us, and whether we'd be wise to stop now, or press on.
It also weights a school's academic research, which is hard on those with no doctoral programme.
It's a question that one academic grouping, the Earth System Governance Project, has spent a decade researching.
So when a collegiate organization like the Big Ten Conference is motivated to expand, most would like to think it's a school's academic, or even athletic, merits that put said institution at the top of the want list.
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It's a similar story for an academic with a common name trying to promote research.
With bloated tuition costs and questionable academic standards, it's time we challenge the conventional wisdom that college is the only path to advanced education and economic success.
Elsewhere in the Chinese academic establishment, it's a puzzle.
The school plans to initiate broad conversations on campus about academic honesty, including why it's vital to intellectual inquiry.
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It's an assertion that's backed up by academic research highlighting the importance of physical proximity in driving scientific progress.
But it's not always easy for them to assimilate to academic life.
It's an arts center, a rural retreat, an academic facility, a community center.
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It's a culture that helped Shanna Brancato raise her own academic ambitions.
Flipping art for a quick profit is nothing new, but it's rare in the staid market of 19th century European academic art.
"It's a good thing, " said Sadia White, chief academic officer at Newark schools.
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"It's one thing after another, " says Eric Topol, chief academic officer of Scripps Health.
"I think at the university level, it's very important to be able to have a breadth" of academic approaches working together, he said.
They will be calling upon the Treasury to cancel the seminar it is co-sponsoring that afternoon with the country's most prominent academic boosters of Shariah-Compliant Finance: Harvard University Law School's Islamic Finance Project.
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"It's a valid methodology, " said Adina Lopatin, a deputy chief academic officer at the Department of Education.
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"The demand is already huge, but it's going to grow several-fold, " says Rama Velamuri, academic director of the international executive M.
So it's not the full, 'I'm gonna go get an academic degree for academic standard' or 'I just want to find out how to grill a steak.
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It's all a long way from the days of the dictionary's founder, academic Sir James Murray, who was commissioned by the Philological Society of London.
"It's like taking the air out of a balloon, " says Berish Strauch, academic chair and professor of plastic surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.
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