University lectures for secondary schools

As Michael Gove calls for universities to play a greater role in the development of A-levels, a major new website is launched to help universities reach their prospective students and give those students a taste of university teaching.

Through The Faculties website, universities are already working to reach A-level students more effectively to improve recruitment and better retain students who understand what to expect from university.

The Faculties website provides free, short films of university lecturers speaking on topics directly from the A-level curriculum. The subject sites also help students choose a university department that's right for them and shows them what careers may follow their studies and what employers particularly value in graduates.

Each site has three levels for you to explore:

The new site, funded by JISC and supported by the major exam boards, is providing free educational video podcasts by university lecturers on subjects taken directly from the A-level/IB curricula.

The Faculties contains over 360 video podcasts – over 80 hours of material – in English, Maths, History, Psychology, Biology and Chemistry. The material is keyword searchable and linked to exam board unit codes. All the resources are licensed under creative commons so other universities and colleges can set up similar sites or reuse the podcasts as they wish.

Watch lecturers online at The Faculties.