Some academics although highly intelligent are the worst teachers on this planet.
You also get some that are pretty thick actually in the grand scale of things but utterly brilliant at teaching thier subject, they are getting few and far between.
Unfortunately the way the whole system is setup its research, paper writing, and submitting research grants which is the main asset of an academic to a department.
So far from being centres of excellences for teaching university are in some ways lagging far behind the rest of the training and teaching profession. But then again they arn't really in the business of teaching. Part of skills learnt doing a degree is self learning, personal discipline and organising information. None of which can be done if the student is spoon fed every detail.
Which is why the ATPL degrees arn't worth the paper they are written on for anything academic.