Global Banking School is a leading HE provider of flexible learning to adult students and your course forms part of our largest validated partnership and Faculty. Your student and customer experience, both academic and welfare, is designed around you, allowing personalised and individual learning schedules to ensure you can combine successful study with your other family and working pattens. With pride, we aim to help you those from non-traditional backgrounds develop and flourish beyond expectations.

Dr Peter Heard
Provost

Welcome

 

Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) is the awarding institution for BSc (Hons) Business and Tourism Management. This means that even though you are studying at Global Banking School, you are officially a student of Canterbury Christ Church University. This arrangement enables you to access to a wide range of support from both institutions, however it also means you must adhere to both institution’s terms and conditions.

All students need to register with both GBS and Canterbury Christ Church University at the start of each new year of study. More about registering with Canterbury Christ Church University.

 

During your studies, you will receive most of your support from GBS, and will provide the following:

  • Access to Moodle, your virtual learning environment, where all your course learning materials are held
  • Access to the library , which gives you access to thousands of e-books, e-journals and databases to help you in your studies
  • A Canterbury Christ Church University email address and computing account.
  • Access to MyRecord, Canterbury Christ Church University’s student portal, where you will:
    • register for each subsequent year of study
    • update contact details like your personal email & phone number
    • access your academic results

Please ensure that both Canterbury Christ Church University and GBS Campus have your most up-to-date contact details. Once you are a registered student you can change your contact details, including your address(es), at any time in MyRecord.

 

 

Your welcome from GBS

We welcome all of you to your studies on this programme and are delighted you have begun the journey to attain your career goals with us at Global Banking School (GBS). GBS prides itself on the most direct support for its students to present the best learning for you all and wishes you every success towards your degree award. Please take every confidence in our commitment to your successful studies over the next four years.

 

 

Getting started

  • Students are expected to attend all classes and to abide by the GBS Code of Conduct.
  • Induction is integrated into the first few weeks of teaching and will give students a thorough introduction to policies and the structure of their programme. The extensive support system will be outlined, and contact information relayed, as well as the schedule of teaching and learning.
  • Module 1 will be an introduction to Academic Skills, developed to familiarise students with the requirements of study at university. Topics such as academic writing, paraphrasing and referencing will be taught, as well as academic misconduct.
  • Module 2 will teach students the value of reflection and reflective writing, as well as how to develop a Personal Development Plan (PDP). The Module seeks to p[rovide students with the skills to become life-long learners.
  • Module 3 will be an introduction to the world of Business. The module begins to familiarise students with the language used in business, as well as different structures and purposes of business organisation
  • GBS provides one-to-one support for students to hone their skills, as well as weekly online sessions on academic writing, paraphrasing and so on. Students can access these sessions through the internal system at GBS once they have registered and gained access to the intranet.

Pre-course reading

  • Bedford, D. and Wilson, E. (2020) Study Skills for Foundation Degrees. 3rd edn. Oxford: Routledge.
  • Cottrell, S. (2019) The Study Skills Handbook. 5th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
  • Gallagher, K. (2016) Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford Press.
  • Godfrey, J. (2014) Reading and Making Notes. 2nd Edition. London: Palgrave. • Novelli, M. (2022) Niche tourism in: Encyclopaedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 344-347. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377486.niche.tourism

Contact details

Admissions admissions@globalbanking.ac.uk
Student support (incl. financial) welfare@globalbanking.ac.uk
Any IT queries studentITsupport@globalbanking.ac.uk
Moodle Team lrt@globalbanking.ac.uk
Central Records Team cccustudentrecords@globalbanking.ac.uk
Status Letters/CT Letters customerservice@globalbanking.ac.uk

DIRECT CAMPUS

Direct Email Contacts
CCCU Leeds ccculeeds@globalbanking.ac.uk
CCCU Stratford cccustratford@globalbanking.ac.uk
CCCU London ccculondon@globalbanking.ac.uk
CCCU Birmingham cccubirmingham@globalbanking.ac.uk
CCCU Manchester cccumanchester@globalbanking.ac.uk

 

GBS NUMBER
GBS Main Contact Number 0208 092 9440