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Healthy eating doesn't have to be expensive. Or particularly difficult either.
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Wolfram Alpha can be a bit of fun…
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Wolfram Alpha – http://www.wolframalpha.com/ – doesn't appear to be a 'Google killer' at the moment and it's not impressive enough to make a serious difference to a lot of academic research. Let's hope the service improves over time. However, Karen Blakeman explains why Wolfram Alpha isn't up to scratch yet in this piece.
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"More than 2.5 million students will pay 0% rate of interest on their loans from September, the government announced yesterday."
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Aimhigher Associates is the first scheme of its kind to build long term links between undergraduates and school/college students from disadvantaged backgrounds to help raise educational aspirations. Undergraduates will be recruited to become Associates, using their personal experience to encourage and support pupils as young as 13 to make the most of their talents.
An interesting lack of interest
Good news for those of us (most of us!) ratcheting up student loan debts. From September this year, students will pay no interest on their loans. Woo!
How long that will last, I don’t know, but it’s good news for now.
Okay, some of you might know that the current scheme would have meant an interest rate of minus 0.4% (meaning we’d have money paid off the debt each month for free), but the likelihood of that happening was almost non-existent.
So we’ve got the next best thing. I’m sure most of us will be fine with that. Shame we’ve got such huge loans to pay off, but at least they won’t attract interest for a while.
Small beans, but I’m not going to knock it.
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