ElenaBothari, several places offer courses, either students ones or Chalet Host ones. DD's couse was a week of general (student) cookery, shopping and menu planning and a second week of housekeeing and menus, useful for chalet hosts. (The school's owner got her flat cleaned from top to bottom every other week!) I will PM the name of the school she went to. It was expensive but great fun, especially as the other students were the same age. However it would not be hard to replicate at home. It probably is not right, but school demands in Yr 13 are so heavy that many kids will get away with doing virtualy nothing at home. But no reason why, post exams, they should not be encouraged to take over the family budget and plan and cook meals for a week or two. Plus be remined of basic cleaning and hygiene. (Different chopping boards etc)
Whilst she was doing the course, we had a student doing an internship in London living with us, who was amazed at how much (risotto, cake, quiche, bread etc) DD learnt in her first day. As much as this girl had learnt in her whole Food Tech GCSE.
DD has just moved flats and is now with some "clean freaks", and her next year's flat mates are similar. They are all different, but she is very relieved to be with people who live ordered lives, so no longer comes home to find her food eaten or her pans and crockery used. Having the skills that put her on the same page, could well lead her to sharing with people who take a similarly ordered approach to both social life and study, and thus improve her whole university experience. Or put another way, turning up to University with basic life skills (budgeting, cooking, cleaning etc) in place means one less challenge when you get there and thus more chance of thriving.