Relating to education and scholarship (8)

I believe the answer is:
academic
(Other definitions for academic that I've seen before include "Scholarly; irrelevant" , "Intellectual" , "having no bearing on the situation" , "fellow" , "Scholastic" .)
I believe the answer is:
academic
(Other definitions for academic that I've seen before include "Scholarly; irrelevant" , "Intellectual" , "having no bearing on the situation" , "fellow" , "Scholastic" .)