Liberal Democrats had opposed the introduction of the English Baccalaureate Certificate, believing they would bring in a two-tier system, which would damage teenagers who were not academic enough to pass the new exams.
This question is not academic for me.
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The focus is not purely academic - drama and art might also be covered.
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But was this not an academic point, of no relevance more than 100 years later?
This is not an academic issue as is obvious from the heartbreaking events unfolding across the Arab world.
"This is not an academic exercise, " Kennedy said in a telephone interview Thursday.
She began to publish, not in academic journals, but in the mainstream press.
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Determining how many vehicles, and what kind of vehicles, will cross a bridge on a daily basis is not merely academic.
Lucent's interest in sea creatures is not entirely academic, despite Bell Labs' honourable history of pushing back the frontiers of human understanding.
For best-selling British crime writer Peter James, it's not an academic question.
As for the relationship between the music and the celestial bodies that lend the show its theme, the approach is not remotely academic.
The balance that must be struck, however, is that it should remain connected closely enough to the operational business that it does not become academic.
Over 70 pipeline ruptures, spills and explosions have occurred in the U.S. in the last two years alone, so this is not an academic exercise.
These are life skills, not just academic skills, and it is the quality of writing and thinking that separates employees with identical technical skill sets.
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This is not an academic question.
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Such questions are not merely academic.
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Steve McIntyre, a retired Canadian mining consultant whose blog, Climate Audit, has been the source for much detailed critique of climate reconstructions, including those of CRU, might, though not an academic, be the sort of person Mr Stringer is thinking of.
He's shown he can produce results in the real world, not just in academic studies.
We're not talking about academic excellence here, just basic graduation and completion of high school.
Yet Mr Lee is not just some academic out to poke fun at clumsy companies and economic peculiarities.
For Jack, the all-round university experience is important, and that means not just the academic reputation of the institution.
The true level of the equity premium is not merely an academic debate.
How can we say with certainty that any other interpersonal goals would not have trumped academic ones in a head-to-head comparison?
Therefore, it demands not only an academic skill--it also requires a personal ability to be able to form trust with people.
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