Globalisation

Year 12 students have been studying Globalisation, we have been looking at McDonalds as casestudy. Can you suggest why McDonalds is considered a TNC?

Transnational Corporations

Y13 have been researching into the impacts that Transnational Corporations can have on both host countries and countries of origin.

‘TNCs are not necessarily a negative phenomena’. Peter Dickens.

To what extent do Y13 agree / disagree with this statement?

China drinks its milk

China's growing love of dairy products is threatening to push UK prices up. But why are the Chinese drinking more milk and why does it affect the whole world?

Find out more here - BBC News Magazine

Olympic firms 'abusing workers'

At the heart of the Olympics, and indeed of all sport, is a sense of absolute fair play. However, is the situation for the workers who produce sportswear fair?

A report by the BBC claims that some official merchandise for the 2008 Olympics in China has been made using child labour, forced overtime and low wages to boost profits. Who do you think should take responsibility for improving the situation for these workers?

This report should be of particular interest to Year 9 Geographers who are currently learning about fair trade in fashion.

Mc Donaldisation

Year 9 and Year 8 Geographers are currently learning about globalisation in terms of fashion and sport respectively. What about food and drink? How have Mc Donalds and Coca-cola spread around the world? What processes are involved in Coca-colaisation and Mc Donaldisation? How do these forms of globalisation affect people worldwide? Think about your role as a consumer.

Check out geographyalltheway.com for some McGeography resources and try the Mc Donalds video game.

How soccer explains the world

In his new book, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, Franklin Foer looks at the passions and rivalries embedded in soccer, and comes up with some interesting theories about our ever-shrinking world. The above clip from 'CBC News: Sunday Night' includes an interview with Franklin Foer. Links to Geography, History and RE here.

SIM Sweatshop

You are invited to enter the world of the sweatshop and become a factory worker. Do you accept the challenge? Can you tirelessly make sports shoes for less than a dollar an hour as you struggle to support your family? Play at www.simsweatshop.com/

Who's the real fashion victim?

Year 9 Geography students will be learning about the global fashion industry in Term 5. This unit will focus on globalisation, in which what happens in one place can affect people and places everywhere.

Would Primark's cheap clothes be so attractive to the queue of excitable young fashionistas shown in the clip if they knew the huge cost of those rock bottom prices?

Check out Andrea Thompson's report for the Daily Mail on the women who are paying the price for our pursuit of cheap fashion.