Ethics and Sustainability in Business: Oide Business and WWGS Collaboration Training 2025

 Ethics and Sustainability in Business Worldwise Global Schools (WWGS) can support teaching and learning in the Senior Cycle Business classroom. WWGS are working with Oide to assist teachers with the cross-cutting theme of ethics and sustainability. Workshop Resources Video recording Please, find a recording of WorldWise Global Schools input here. Presentation Please, find the slides in pdf and pptx here. …

Lesson Plan: Learning from a Double Disease

Lesson Plan: Learning from a Double Disease Strand Five: The Biological World Main Learning Outcome 6: Evaluate how human health is affected by: inherited factors and environmental factors including nutrition; lifestyle choices; examine the role of micro-organisms in human health. Overview In this lesson, available in both Irish and English, learners investigate the science behind the world’s oldest recorded disease: leprosy. …

Lesson Plan: Planting Health

In this lesson, learners will explore the importance of plants in medicine, the impact of biodiversity loss globally, and the expertise of Indigenous people in preserving ecosystems.

Peace and Justice, Workshop, Nov 10th 2022

With the increase in military spending due to the war in Ukraine (and let’s face it many other wars happening in the world) there is an increasing need for us to be anti-war and peace agents. This online workshop in collaboration with Afri will bring you (and therefore your students) on a journey from a global overview of war and militarisation to taking meaningful action in your school.

Modern Day Slavery

The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade began 200 years ago, and many schools marked this event. However, new forms of slavery are prevalent today.

Tax Justice

Tax justice means fairer systems for taxing. Potential loss of tax revenues to the EU amount to approximately one trillion each year and billions are lost from countries in the Global south.

Trade Justice

Trade has always been an important part of society, however current trade rules do tend to benefit the richer countries.

Resource Extraction

Countries that are rich in natural resources are often poor and suffer from high rates of inequality, corruption, human rights abuse, and environmental degradation.

Sustainable Fishing

Overfishing is the process of catching too many fish at once, so that the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover.

Fast Fashion

Being an ethical consumer in today’s world requires first recognizing that consumption is not just embedded in economic relations, but also social and political ones.

The Circular Economy

The circular economy is a process of minimising waste and making the most out of finite resources to achieve sustainable development.

Access to Markets and Industry

Goal 9 focuses on making sure that industries and infrastructure is future-proofed and responsive to the needs of people, giving people the tools to find long term solutions to problems.

Degrowth

For decades, global economies have focused on growth, often at the expense of the environment, traditional land use and land rights of indigenous people and the habitats of plant and animal species.

Child Labour

For tens of millions of children around the world, their basic rights are at risk because they have to work.

Poverty

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made but the way that it is spoken about and particularly how people living in poverty are spoken about, does not reflect this.

Land Grabs

In today’s world landowners, agribusinesses, investors and governments want to acquire land to turn into crop plantations to make huge profits.

Racial Justice

Racism is when an individual, group, structure or institution intentionally (or unintentionally) abuses their power to the detriment of people, because of their action or perceived “racialised background.