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Issue 305 • January 19 2012 Price £1.00 www.sec-ed.com


Tackling Twigg


Three months into his role as shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg talks to SecEd about the academies programme. We also ask him to answer questions submitted by SecEd readers. Page 4


Save Careers


National Careers Week and the Save Careers campaign are helping schools to fill the black hole left by government cuts to careers advice services Page 13


Robert Burns


With Burns Night taking place next week, Sam Phipps pays a trip to the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum to see what it offers for schools Page 13


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It is estimated that 66,000 women in England and Wales are victims of female genital mutilation – the partial or total removal of external genitalia for non-medical reasons. The practice – illegal in this country – is often carried out by people with no medical qualifications using scissors, knives or razor blades. Shockingly, it is feared that 23,000 girls under the age of 15 in England and Wales are at risk. A SecEd special report this week asks how schools can help in the fight to stop this horrific practice – see pages 8 and 9.


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