No learner for newly-acclaimed teacher (8)
I believe the answer is:
academic
'teacher' is the definition.
(I know that academic is a type of academic)
I don't understand how the rest of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for academic that I've seen before include "Intellectual" , "Of theoretical interest, or scholarly" , "fellow" , "Scholarly as opposed to practical (8)" , "Unimportant" .)