The MOOCs (massive open online courses) are planned to start when AS levels finish and last for three to eight weeks, involving one to four hours’ study a week.
They are intended to provide “a real sense of university level study” and are being run by social learning platform FutureLearn, part of the Open University, in conjunction with a number of universities across the UK and internationally.
The courses have been developed after a FutureLearn survey last year of 800 16 to 18-year-olds found that 61 per cent said they did not feel prepared for university-level learning.
Courses include How to succeed at interviews, How to succeed at writing applications, Preparing for Uni, and Developing your research project. There are also tasters of subjects outside of the national curriculum, including computer science, forensics, dentistry, archaeology and robotics.
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