The jobs for which they apply consequently require practical skills rather than academic knowledge.

Why should academic knowledge be antithetical to compassion and understanding?

The graduates now need strength and guidance for the future, help them to understand that we are not complete with academic knowledge alone.

Thus, the competition aims to test not only the students' academic knowledge, but also their ability to face realistic business challenges.

As a consequence, management skills gained a higher weight than the academic knowledge of the subject matter.

Using his academic knowledge, he returned to work on the family farm.

Study groups exist so that the members of the group can mutually benefit from one another's academic knowledge.

He was respected in the region for his academic knowledge and teaching methods.

Chris had an academic knowledge of Latin, a reading knowledge.

He may "know" his political business, but that seems to be worlds apart from academic knowledge or the ability to reason theoretically.