“…This award not only attracted more young people to the profession but encouraged existing teachers to stay on . By the late 1970s the picture of a decade earlier of excess demand in the teacher labour market had turned full circle to one of excess supply (see Henderson et al, 1980;Zabalza et al, 1979, Bembaum & Cook, 1983. Bernbaum & Cook, 1984Cook, 1985;Cook, 1986).…”