The National Youth Agency: Comment - So you want fame?

The LSC adopts something of a shock horror tone and I can understand its point of view. Its job is to make the country more skilled and hence competitive, thus providing more jobs. Disabusing young people of the notion that waiting for random "fame" and its attendant wealth is a realistic alternative to hard graft is a worthy aim. And when you have a product to market such as the about-to-be-expanded education maintenance allowance, which genuinely will make a difference to thousands of young lives, there is even more reason to encourage young people to get real. The council, in an unholy alliance with Heat magazine, has calculated the chances of achieving any degree of lasting wealth and celebrity through Big Brother as one in 30 million - or three times less likely than your six numbers coming up in the Lottery.