Monash University

The Eight Campuses of Monash University

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In terms of student population, the Monash University in Melbourne is the largest university in Australia. This public university has 56,000 students and 15,000 staff and has received its name after Sir John Monash. It was founded through an Act of Parliament in 1958, thus made it the first university to be instituted in the state of Victoria for more than 100 years.

Monash University has a total of 8 campuses. Its original campus was situated in Clayton, which first admitted 363 pioneer students in 1961. The 100 hectares of land on which this campus stood was originally used for different purposes such as that for the Talbot Epileptic Colony. From its humble beginnings in fields of mud and a library lodged in a derelict Volkswagen factory, Clayton campus has improved in size and in student population, it is now the largest of all 8 Monash's campuses.

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All over the world, the numbers of people in school at the different levels takes pyramidal shape. There are huge numbers at the elementary, but as they progress, the numbers decrease, leaving just a few in higher education. In the United States, some 65 million students were expected to enroll from K to K12 in the fall of 2015. In the same period, it was expected that 20.2 million would be attending Colleges and Universities. It is estimated that 25% of fresh high school students in the U.S.A are not able to graduate. For fresh students who enter colleges or universities 1 out of 3 are likely not make it to second year. This dropout out rate hinders national development, because many people do not receive the full training they need to be functional in society. National development would be hugely fostered, if more adults receive education, in order that they become functional in society.

I am not saying that all adults who were not fully educated are not playing important roles in society. There are very prominent individuals in society who dropped out of school at some level. Bill Gate, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, for example, at some point dropped out of school. Though this list is not exhaustive, the number of people who dropped out of school or decided not to gain higher education and yet became successful are relatively few. For the majority who dropped out or discontinued education, and could not become successful in their careers, it was because they lacked the knowledge they needed to develop their potential. If you check the history of those who in spite of dropping out or discontinuing schooling have become successful, you would find that appeared to have found their life's purpose and so pursued those goals and, more importantly, they received some kind of education later.