Professor Phil Molyneux Awarded prestigious Accounting and Finance award
Learning
Phil Molyneux, Professor of Banking and Finance at Bangor Business School London Centre, has been awarded a prestigious honour by the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA).
Library and IT Services
Blackboard
In addition to face to face lectures, seminars and workshops, students will receive learning support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by means of Bangor University’s extensively developed online learning resource: ‘Blackboard’. A virtual learning environment, Blackboard is a powerful tool that supports and enhances students’ learning experience and enables lecturers to upload recordings of every lecture via lecture capture 14
technology, articles, reading materials, financial spreadsheets, financial databases, powerpoint lecture slides and many other resources for students to access. Each degree scheme, and each module within each degree scheme will have its own dedicated blackboard microsite and the vast majority of all essential material plus supplementary materials is
made available to students via this site. Lively discussions on topical subjects relevant to specific modules can also take place on the blackboard virtual seminar room. Every module leader will make extensive use of this facility to enhance and support each and every student’s learning and development.
Every student will be provided with a set of core text books and a laptop, which provides access to blackboard, the online learning resource and to the University Library Services’ electronic reading materials such as e-books and e-journals. Students will also have free access to City Business Library, which is located within a short distance to the Bangor Business School, and all city of London libraries.
The Distinguished Academic Award is given annually to an individual deemed by BAFA to have made ‘a substantial and direct contribution to UK academic accounting and finance life’. Professor Molyneux – also Dean of the College of Business, Law, Education and Social Sciences at Bangor University – was given the award in recognition of his significant contribution to teaching and research. Alongside his academic career, he has acted as consultant to various international banks and consulting firms, including New York Federal Reserve Bank, World Bank, European Commission and the UK Treasury. 15