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Student Loans

More or Less: Behind the Stats

English - August 15, 2014 15:55 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratings
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The cost of the government's new student loan system is rising according to a recent report. Tim Harford investigates whether the rising costs should have been foreseen, and whether the new system will end up costing more than the old one. Plus: mobile phone goldmines in our pockets; paedophilia in the priesthood and from machine learning to deep learning.