Are art students losing out to art conversion students?

 I have noticed recently an increasing amount of people involved in the arts how have either taken a secondary degree in the arts or who have had some kind of conversion/postgrad qualification. Now there is nothing wrong with this, but perhaps it would be prudent of Arts based educational establishments to further prepare thier students for life beyond university with more applied skills. Now of course there are many creative entrepreneurial students from arts backgrounds; however it remains that there is still a low employability rate from this area post graduation. 

In order to solve this universites, colleges etc must provide at least some lessons in some form of business related areas, this would give all students a better founding when they are released into the real world, whether they go on to be artists, gallerists or waiters. Even though there are great career services at many of these establishments, not enough of the students regular see or visit these services. 

Because of this I propose the introduction of some kind of compolsaory careers lecture for arts students to attend once a term in order to give them a better chance of getting a job within the arts to ensure the developement of the field upon them graduating. 

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Yoko Ono- #smilesfilm

Im afraid I'm in a synicle mood so this is a synicle piece inspired by these words;

Send a smile to your friend so he/she can smile, too.
Think of a way to do it.
You could send a photo that says ‘smile’,
or a picture, a story, or a piece of pie,
but specify that it’s a smile you’re passing on.
Ask him/her to do the same:
to pass on the ‘smile’ in his/her own way.
Love,

Yoko Ono

What does it mean to smile? well its some form of facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth, this often to signal pleasure. What if we are broadcasting that pleasure to everyone at the will of one person? Does it not remind you of some kind of quasi Kim Jong-Ill brainwashing. While there remains some nice gesture in getting everyone to smile and send it around the world, to "brighten" our live ands days etc. I find it somewhat more sinister in terms of our kneeling to a celebrity artist. Smile like your happy, then submit it via social media to an online database, to me that seems like keeping up appearances as it were; however, i think i have taken this too far, smiles are infectious, and this is a cute way of perhaps extending alot of Ono's other works that imply a universality between us all. A smile is a simple thing that transcends boundaries of all kinds.

So in light of this don't miss the Yoko Ono show To The Light at the Serpentine Gallery