Like a mortgage, tertiary education is a long-term investment; both require a tonne of money and plenty of hard work.
The National Centre for Vocational Educational Research (NCVER) reported that 85% of university undergraduates and 83% of apprentices have the best employment prospects in the Australian market, compared to the 63.6% of those who do not continue with education.
Take the old sheilas from Desperate Housewives for example. Marcia Cross has a Masters in Psychology, Felicity Huffman has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University (NYU) and Eva Longoria (the hot one) has a degree in Kinesiology.
These leadings ladies scored roles on the ratings juggernaut after years of unemployment and the cult success of Melrose Place and other soaps back in the early 90s.
On the other end of the scale, Australia’s hostess with the mostest (wrinkles), Gretel Killeen, was earlier in the year replaced by Kyle and Jackie’O as Big Brother Host.
The law school drop-out who writes books intelligently titled My Life is a Toilet and My Life is a boobtube, was once a ‘beauty’ panel member on Network Ten’s Beauty and the Beast. How times have changed…
Unlike Killeen, another law drop-out, Matthew McConaughey, stayed in university and changed to a drama major.
Fellow blond however, Jessica Simpson, dropped out of high school.
You can now see Simpson on labels of ‘hairdo’, a wig line she ‘designed’. Note: the term ‘designed’ is use loosely, almost as loose as …
On the ‘hairdo’ packaging, Simpson poses with pouted lips, much like a fish- or is it chicken?
When it comes to 28-year-old Simpson, she redefines pushing the envelope of success on such an empty head. In fact, she tears that envelope into pieces.
Harvard graduate in psychology, Natalie Portman, is smarter than that Other Boleyn Girl, has been nominated for an Oscar and giving talks at NYU and Stanford University.
Other examples of the longlivety of higher education, include honours graduates Brooke Shields and Jodie Foster who both have new projects this year.
In contrast, when Rihanna recorded Please Don’t Stop the Music, she obviously was not listening to Stars are Blind, by Paris Hilton.
Tabloid staple, Hilton, (no education background required- literally) recently held auditions for her new reality show, a search for her new BFF.
OK! Magazine reports that at the first audition in New York, 40 people showed up.
Thinking people want to be your friend when they clearly don’t?
That’s an entirely different kind of smart.
