At its worst it may become "little more than a game, with ill-defined rules and little academic credibility."

The interest goes both ways: cooking schools are gaining a new kind of academic credibility.

These have given an appearance of academic and scientific credibility to radical Conservative policies.

After the war these surgeons returned to the U.S. with a need to add academic credibility to their training.

In the early 1970s, the schools began to recognize the need for academic credibility.

The numbers of students might be small (and they grew, initially, only slowly) but the academic credibility of the College rested on them.

Then, academic credibility established, they undertook an intensive one year course.

Critics say that the partnership could damage the universities' academic credibility.

This contrasts with the situation in scene five, where he has considerable academic credibility.

All over the world, university campuses are offering their research facilities, and priceless academic credibility, for the brands to use as they please.