Lorraine Waters

Accurate record keeping is an important employability skill that students need to develop in any scientific discipline.

One of the key challenges within the Open University (OU) is the lack of student engagement, which impacts students’ continuation and completion of their studies.

Developing employability skills have been identified as an Open University priority; there is evidence that these transferable ‘soft’ skills are often limited in science graduates entering the workplace.

It remains the case that despite different initiatives to encourage tutorial attendance, few students attend live online tutorials in LHCS.