Saturday, 25 June 2011

Year 8 recommended to watch Dispatches MONDAY 27th June - THE REAL PRICE OF GOLD

On Monday at 8pm on Channel 4 Dispatches is showing their programme on fair trade or to be more precise the not so fair trade gold that we buy in the western world. If you are able to it is definitely worth watching as although it looks at Gold it covers many of the issues and problems that we will look at in the current Year 8 unit of work called 'A Thorny Issue' albeit we are looking at the trade of flowers, in particular, roses.

A review of the programmme is below:

Dispatches reveals that British consumers are being given incorrect information by some of the biggest high street jewellery shops when buying gold. The programme believes that gold is still being sourced unethically,

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