Scholarly world (7)
I believe the answer is:
academe
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">scholarly world</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for academe that I've seen before include "universities" , "The teaching environment" , "University environment" , "World of scholarship" , "place of learning" .)