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Bangor Business School

School overview

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The School's teaching provision

We offer a full range of learning opportunities at all levels of post-16 education including;

  • a suite of full-time undergraduate programmes - extensively revised with a wider range of subject choices and greater flexibility for students and including improved access pathways through the development of our HND and HNC provisions.
  • a graduate MBA and specialist postgraduate taught programmes
  • part-time studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
  • management development and executive programmes, short courses and consultancy services for corporate clients and professional managers
  • opportunities for research and research degree study based around the School's research institutes and a thriving community of active researchers and research students

There are over 8000 students at Bangor and over 800 are studying at the Bangor Business School. We are a multidisciplinary university school bringing together numerous strands of teaching and research.

Alongside the more typical business school disciplines, we have established particular expertise in the following key areas:

An important part of our mission is to consolidate, grow and enhance these specialisms.

Advisory Board

  • The Business School's Advisory Board is chaired by Dafydd Wigley and includes many other prominent people from the world of business, finance, regional development and the business school sector. Other members include Mervyn Davies, Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank and Malcolm Walker, founder of Iceland plc.
  • In 2005, Sir Peter Davis joined the Board. Peter Davis is a main board director of UBS AG of Zurich, Europe's largest bank by assets (which he joined in 2001). He is also on the Board of Business in the Community, where he is Deputy Chairman. He chaired the Government's Employer Task Force on Pensions, which completed its work in March 2005. Peter Davis has been Chief Executive of three major FTSE companies within different sectors (Reed International/Reed Elsevier 1986-1994; Prudential 1995-2000; and J Sainsbury plc 2000-2004). He has also been a non-executive director of Boots, Cadbury Schweppes, Granada, BSB and on the Supervisory Board of both AEGON and Elsevier in Holland.
  • The Advisory Board has been joined recently by the following new members:
    • Professor Howard Thomas, Dean of Warwick Business School & Professor of Strategic Management;
    • Professor Sian Hope, Pro Vice Chancellor for Knowledge Transfer and Enterprise, Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director of CAST (Centre for Advanced Software Technology), Bangor University;
    • Vanessa Griffiths, Director North Wales and Enterprise, North Wales Division, Welsh Development Agency;
    • Rob Irvine, Editor, Welsh Division, Daily Post;
    • Robin Llywelyn, Managing Director Portmeirion Ltd.;
    • Adrian Piper, Agent for Wales, Bank of England, Agency for Wales;
    • Neville Thomas, Queen's Counsel;
    • Wyn Mears, Head of ACCA Wales and Acting Head of ACCA UK.
  • On the 6th of May the Board met at Bangor and discussed (amongst other matters) a new ExecMBA Programme that will be led by Professor Peter Barrar.

The Schools research provision

The School's research activity is focused in a number of Research Institutes, such as the Centre for Banking and Finance which incorporates the internationally renowned Institute for European Finance. You can find out much more about these institutes by visiting our Research Institutes page.

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