New Boundaries - Online courses open doors for teenagers

Teenage applicants from as far afield as India and Mongolia are catching western colleges ' attention by taking so-called massive online open courses designed for older students.

Schoolchildren taking courses on their own initiative already account for about 5 per cent of the 800,000 students at edX, the non-profit online venture founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Some have used their results to apply to the colleges that pioneered MOOCs ... READ MORE

Released by the Financial Times - 26 March 2013