Useful links and resources for schools

www.insted.co.uk – for comprehensive links, current debates and advice by Robin Richardson on race equality, racist bullying and cultural diversity in education

Getting them together: equalities, cohesion and linguistic identity - Robin Richardson discusses how the four different sets of duties proposed by the DCSF can be synthesised

Teaching about other cultures - download a list of dos and don'ts for class teachers to refer to

World maps

• Beware: world maps can mislead - essential information for teachers
• Choosing a map - a helpful overview from the Geographical Association
• World Mapper -366 maps to explore how the world would look if each country was resized according to its rates of consumption, population, numbers of migrants, wealth etc.
  

World trade

World Trade Organisation (WTO) -Summary sheet - outlines how current international trade rules damage developing countries

Environmental Issues

Water use in UK deepens global food crisis

E-waste trade is the unacceptable face of recycling- read about how computer waste ends up in giant trash piles in Africa, India and China

World's poor overwhelmed by rubbish - a series of photographs that show how developing countries bare the brunt of waste and pollution

The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan

Wangari Maathai: The first African woman Noble peace prize laureate