We hear more and more the term "human capital", a perfectly appropriate economic term, I use it quite often, others of you in this room have used it but it is used in the context of, again, education - higher education - being a private investment and with the expected higher private return for those individuals capable of making that investment.

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"I don't often use that word but then it is not very often that you get to meet one, " he said.

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