As well as being a household name, perfume touting, pop princess according to one website Britney's an expert on everything from radioactive recombination to optoelectronics. The site has published her teachings interspersed with a copious amount of photos…

Well, it’s one way of motivating the apathetic science student and a radical change of direction for a singer whose best lyric thus far has been oops I did it again.

And if the craze continues, will we see Justin Timberlake’s guide to postmodernist art, P Diddy tackling Shakespearean sonnets or worst of all, Bono banging on about Peig Sayers.