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Accountant trained to rise in scholastic life (8)

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I believe the answer is:

academia

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'scholastic life' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'accountant trained to rise' is the wordplay.
'accountant' becomes 'ac'.
'trained' becomes 'aimed' ('aim' can be a synonym of 'train').
'to' becomes 'a' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rise' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'aimed'+'a'='aimeda'
'aimeda' written backwards gives 'ademia'.
'ac'+'ademia'='ACADEMIA'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for academia that I've seen before include "university circles" , "Scholarly world" , "Teaching environment" , "university types" , "university life" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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