The Human Capital Gateway aims to provide effective integration of information on data, policy and research relating to all stages of the development and mobilisation of human capital where human capital is defined as “… the knowledge, skills, competencies and attributes embodied in individuals that facilitate the creation of personal, social and economic well-being.” OECD
 
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“Parents, policymakers, business leaders, and the general public increasingly recognize the importance of the first few years in the life of a child for promoting healthy physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development." Rand Corporation
“Parents, policymakers, business leaders, and the general public increasingly recognize the importance of the first few years in the life of a child for promoting healthy physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development."
Rand Corporation
“Weight at birth is a good indicator of the newborn's chances for survival, growth, long-term health and psychosocial development. … Children born underweight also tend to have a lower IQ and cognitive disabilities, affecting their performance in school and their job opportunities as adults”. UNICEF
"Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents." Conrad Burns
"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.” Thomas Carlyle
“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.” Barack Obama
Early Childhood
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The Australian Government and every state and territory government is committed to ensuring that all children will have access to a quality early childhood education program by 2013, delivered by a four-year university trained early childhood teacher, for 15 hours a week, 40 weeks a year, in the year before formal schooling, under the National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education.

(As early childhood education is not compulsory, it has been agreed that an enrolment rate of 95 per cent or higher for children in the year before full time school will equate to ‘universal access’ at a national or jurisdictional level.)

The following diagram provides the current version of a conceptual model for how programs enhance human capital development in early childhood given the characteristics of the child, their family and the community. The diagram shows the key outcome measures. (Please provide comments using the form at the bottom of this page.)

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“Parents, policymakers, business leaders, and the general public increasingly recognize the importance of the first few years in the life of a child for promoting healthy physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development." Rand Corporation
 

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