The phrase "average universities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe institutions of higher education that are considered to have a standard or typical level of quality, neither particularly prestigious nor notably poor.
Example: "Many students choose to apply to average universities, as they offer a good balance of affordability and educational quality."
Alternatives: "mediocre universities" or "typical universities".
There has been, instead, a cast of gray technocrats with the communications skills of your average university economics professor.
The experiment that I would like to see done would be to ask university professors whether they consider themselves more intelligent than the average university professor.
So this means that that 9% drop comes mostly from more "average" university applicants – those who don't aspire to Oxbridge or medical school.
To put this into context, after five years the average university graduate is making $75,000 annually, while the median full-time worker in Australia earns only $57,400.
Anyway, why should anyone be surprised at the prospect of academics signing on for a cushy job at 25% more than the average university salary, with shares in the enterprise to boot?
And with only 24 teaching weeks in the average university year, the quantity and quality of contact time a student gets with academics is regarded as a key indicator of value for money.
We called on the principal, Anton Muscatelli – the architect of the cuts on campus – to condemn cuts to higher education, and to cut his own salary down to that of the average university worker.
Over the three- and five-year periods that ended in mid-2011, he says, a simple balanced index fund portfolio, 60 percent in stocks and 40 percent in bonds, beat the average university endowment.
To make matters worse, the average university course lasts six years and four months, compared with an OECD average of four years and four months, according to Mr Beyer.Although around 60% of students get grants or government-backed loans, these cover only 70-80% ofeeses.
Gail Kinman, professor of occupational health psychology at the University of Bedfordshire, argues that open-plan offices lower academic productivity: It has recently been estimated that the average university desk is occupied for just 45% of office hours, and that just isn't an efficient use of space.
